{"id":1184,"date":"2009-11-17T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:11:39","slug":"off-the-ropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Off The Ropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to direct some eyeballs at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offtheropes.co.nz\/\">Off The Ropes<\/a>&#8220;, the labour-of-love that is bringing home-grown Pro Wrestling back to television screens (and YouTube channels) here in NZ.<br \/>\nIt screens Sunday afternoons on Prime TV, and the first half-hour episode is available in full at the <em>Off The Ropes<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offtheropes.co.nz\/\">website<\/a>.<br \/>\nMassive congratulations to friend-of-this-parish Blair &#8220;The Flair&#8221; Rhodes who calls the matches and makes more than a few appearances on-screen. This is great fun TV, with wrestlers promoting their own awesomitude, glimpses of behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and of course a couple of exciting bouts.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve embedded the first 6-minute chunk.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FWfwB6X5zQw&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to direct some eyeballs at &#8220;Off The Ropes&#8220;, the labour-of-love that is bringing home-grown Pro Wrestling back to television screens (and YouTube channels) here in NZ. It screens Sunday afternoons on Prime TV, and the first half-hour episode is available in full at the Off The Ropes website. Massive congratulations to friend-of-this-parish Blair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off The Ropes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen","category-wellington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-j6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}