{"id":339,"date":"2004-02-04T22:58:41","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T05:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-03-30T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:00:02","slug":"the-ofranken-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/02\/04\/the-ofranken-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The O&#8217;Franken Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/playoffs\/2003-10-15-the-fan_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Steve                   Bartman<\/a>, the infamous Cub fan who allegedly deflected a                   ball in the 6th game of the Cubs vs Florida playoffs is getting                   his due: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/feder\/cst-fin-feder04.html\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC                   is airing live coverage of the foul ball&#8217;s destruction on February                   26th<\/a>, in hopes of lifting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvschool.riroe.k12.il.us\/headley\/Curse.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs                   curse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other Chicago news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/feder\/cst-fin-feder14.html\" target=\"_blank\">Progress                   Media&#8217;s liberal radio network has found an outlet in the city<\/a> at                   WNTD-AM 950, a former Spanish-language radio station. Al Franken                   will feature prominently at the network, with his show, &#8220;The                   O&#8217;Franken Factor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/02\/04\/the-ofranken-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bartman, the infamous Cub fan who allegedly deflected a ball in the 6th game of the Cubs vs Florida playoffs is getting his due: MSNBC is airing live coverage of the foul ball&#8217;s destruction on February 26th, in hopes of lifting the Cubs curse. In other Chicago news, Progress Media&#8217;s liberal radio network has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/02\/04\/the-ofranken-factor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The O&#8217;Franken Factor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/02\/04\/the-ofranken-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}