{"id":4142,"date":"2005-06-04T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:58:11","slug":"letting-go-of-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4142","title":{"rendered":"Letting go of fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantasy football that is. For the last ten years or so I’ve been playing Fantasy Football with a group of people I used to work with. If you go here<\/a> you’ll see how I’ve done this year (although it’s a week out of date at time of writing. I didn’t win).<\/p>\n

Thing is, I’m a Chelsea fan, so I’m not sure that there are going to be many years as satisfying as this one (first championship since before I was born), and there’s also the question of whether it’s ethically fitting to keep supporting a team built upon expropriated Russian assets, and where the board is led by someone like Peter Kenyon. All in all, time to take a break.<\/p>\n

I also want to make room in my life for something else. I’ll still watch\/ follow the footie – there are plans afoot to watch at least one of the world cup matches in Germany – but I want to actually play it a bit more often (as opposed to not playing it at all at the moment!) and put the time I had been putting to following particular players towards other ends. Like becoming the priest God has called me to be. I’ve got a long way to travel yet. Time to quit while I’m ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fantasy football that is. For the last ten years or so I’ve been playing Fantasy Football with a group of people I used to work with. If you go here you’ll see how I’ve done this year (although it’s a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-14O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}