{"id":988,"date":"2009-01-25T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/01\/25\/we-are-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:10:00","slug":"we-are-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/01\/25\/we-are-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron&#8217;s Christmas present this year was two tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/nba\/recap?gameId=290123009\">Cavs vs. Warriors<\/a> game in Oakland.  Result: awesome.  Lebron James proved strong enough to break the decades-long Holliday brother jinx on all Cleveland sports teams by hitting the game winning shot as time expired.  Aaron and I were present eleven rows behind the Cavs bench wearing huge, curly brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/playerfile\/anderson_varejao\/\">Anderson Varejao<\/a> wigs, and even the Warriors fans sitting around us seem stoked to have us there.  In addition to some awesome basketball the night&#8217;s highlights included the courtside arrival of George Lucas (kid behind us: &#8220;Dad, who works for him?&#8221;, father: &#8220;Everyone.&#8221;) and some unbelievable intermission entertainment.  The halftime entertainment saw the world&#8217;s most flexible man, who showed up in a tiny box and then fit his body through a tennis racket and a toilet seat.  A timeout brought four short guys and a trampoline, leading to some of the most impressive dunks (think double back flips) that I&#8217;ve ever seen.  There were cheerleaders (Cheerleaders are pretty&#8230;), drummers, t-shirt launches, pizza giveaways, and all manner of craziness.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend&#8217;s other highlight was Aaron&#8217;s new best friend, Hanford.  The puppy arrived on Wednesday and has since taken over Aaron&#8217;s life, getting him up through the night, finding all manners of rocks to eat, and generally behaving as you would expect a puppy to behave.  The little guy is a bull mastiff, which apparently means that &#8220;little guy&#8221; will only apply for about a month, and also means that his back hips work on some sort of a pivot, giving him a distinctly tank-like walk.  There was much bouncing, biting, chewing, and general mayhem throughout the three days that Hanford made my acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/aaron\/pages\/2009-01-A\/3032-castro-valley-aaron-and-hanford.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2009-01-A\/3032-castro-valley-aaron-and-hanford.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Aaron &amp; Hanford\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Aaron &amp; Hanford.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/friends\/pages\/2009-01-A\/2988-oakland-aaron-and-me-cavs.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2009-01-A\/2988-oakland-aaron-and-me-cavs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Me &amp; Aaron\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Me &amp; Aaron, lookin&#8217; pimp with some delicious chicken tacos.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/random\/pages\/2009-01-A\/3007-oakland-lebron-james-chalk.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2009-01-A\/3007-oakland-lebron-james-chalk.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Lebron James\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Lebron, tossin&#8217; some chalk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron&#8217;s Christmas present this year was two tickets to the Cavs vs. Warriors game in Oakland. Result: awesome. Lebron James proved strong enough to break the decades-long Holliday brother jinx on all Cleveland sports teams by hitting the game winning shot as time expired. Aaron and I were present eleven rows behind the Cavs bench &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/01\/25\/we-are-witnesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are Witnesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}