{"id":1495,"date":"2008-08-09T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/09\/if-a-tree-falls-in-a-forest\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T07:59:17","slug":"if-a-tree-falls-in-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/if-a-tree-falls-in-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"If a Tree Falls in a Forest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/bears-764896.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/bears-764870.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a common philosophical riddle that goes something like this: &#8220;When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no one is around to hear it,  does it make a sound?&#8221;  I am not an expert in philosophy but this existential conundrum seemed to sum up the opening pre-season of the Chicago Bears.   Yes, football&#8230;in August&#8230;its back but no one seemed to notice.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With two Chicago baseball teams in first place, the last thing most fans want to think about it a fledgling Bears team.   The game was a lackluster loss to the Chiefs.   The only redeeming part of this game was the post-game hunt for a place to eat.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On route to our favorite loop restaurant,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millerspub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIller&#8217;s Pub<\/a>, we stumbled on a another alternative.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exchequerpub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exchequer Pub<\/a>.  Both restaurants are great options for a post-game feast of beer and burgers.  If the Bears are going to have another rough season, than planning for the post-game dinner is probably the best options for Bears fans\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a common philosophical riddle that goes something like this: &#8220;When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no one is around to hear it,  does it make a sound?&#8221;  I am not an expert in philosophy but this existential conundrum seemed to sum up the opening pre-season of the Chicago Bears.   Yes, football&#8230;in August&#8230;its back but no one seemed to notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With two Chicago baseball teams in first place, the last thing most fans want to think about it a fledgling Bears team.  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}