{"id":1112,"date":"2002-04-03T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T20:08:37","slug":"womens-hockey-referee-enjoying-silver-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/2002\/04\/03\/womens-hockey-referee-enjoying-silver-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Hockey Referee Enjoying Silver Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOMEWHERE, USA (SBP) &#8212; The American Olympic referee who tried to screw over the Canadian women&#8217;s hockey team by calling 8 consecutive penalties against them has reportedly calmed down and is now enjoying the silver medal she was awarded along side the American women&#8217;s hockey team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the gold medal I had originally set out to win and, I have to admit, the silver medal left a bitter taste in my mouth when it was placed around my neck,&#8221; said the American referee, who made it look painfully obvious the fix was on by her endless parade of unjustified penalties against the Canadians, &#8220;But I came to realize a silver medal is better than what all the other referees and judges won.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The referee was referring to a French figure skating judge who was stripped of a potential gold medal after the obvious fix was exposed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe those (Canadian) women won by playing 4-on-5 hockey for more than half the game!&#8221; exclaimed the American referee as she gently stroked the silver medal around her neck, &#8220;It was unbelievable!  I would have called more penalties against them, but that would have made things look painfully obvious rather than just blatantly obvious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American referee plans to sit back and enjoy her silver medal for the time being.  She has expressed interest in becoming a boxing judge in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, you can do whatever you want in that sport and the under-the-table money is pretty good,&#8221; said the American referee, &#8220;And people expect fixed results in boxing anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[paypal-donation]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMEWHERE, USA (SBP) &#8212; The American Olympic referee who tried to screw over the Canadian women&#8217;s hockey team by calling 8 consecutive penalties against them has reportedly calmed down and is now enjoying the silver medal she was awarded along side the American women&#8217;s hockey team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}