{"id":292,"date":"2006-05-21T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2006-05-21T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T18:15:13","slug":"air-hockey-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Air Hockey World Champion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image275\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/airhockey_1.jpg\" alt=\"airhockey_1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image276\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/airhockey_2.jpg\" alt=\"airhockey_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Fischer\" TARGET=\"_top\">Bobby Fischer<\/a> (before he went crazy) I defend my title in Air Hockey only when it is needed and then I leave the sport for years at a time.  Last night was one of those nights.  After several drinks earlier in the night at <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/16111118\/new_york_ny\/lotus_lounge.html\" TARGET=\"_top\">Lotus Lounge<\/a> to celebrate Alica&#8217;s Birthday we moved on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomny.com\/\" TARGET=\"_top\">The Living Room<\/a> where the title defense began.  First I successfully finished of the Frenchmen in the photograph above with ease.  After several exhibitions matches to keep the crowd entertained my title was challenged once again. But this time I went down swinging to the new champion, Dave.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n*Note:  Click on the images below to view larger images.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/0161.jpg\" title=\"016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image279\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/016.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"016.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/1271.jpg\" title=\"127.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image280\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/127.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"127.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/2161.jpg\" title=\"216.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image281\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/216.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"216.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/312.jpg\" title=\"312.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image282\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/312.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"312.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/412.jpg\" title=\"412.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image283\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/412.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"412.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/511.jpg\" title=\"511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image284\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/511.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"511.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/6101.jpg\" title=\"610.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image285\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/610.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"610.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/77.jpg\" title=\"77.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image287\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/77.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"77.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/86.jpg\" title=\"86.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image288\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/86.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"86.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/971.jpg\" title=\"97.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image289\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/97.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"97.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/1061.jpg\" title=\"106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image290\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/106.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"106.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/11111.jpg\" title=\"1111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image291\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/1111.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"1111.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also lost my rematch, much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onesmallstepband.com\/bronder\/archives\/000081.html\" TARGET=\"_top\">Tyson<\/a> lost to Lennox lewis.  I could make excuses but real champions don&#8217;t need excuse&#8230; just rematches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image277\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/airhockey_3.jpg\" alt=\"airhockey_3.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image278\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/airhockey_41.jpg\" alt=\"airhockey_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like Bobby Fischer (before he went crazy) I defend my title in Air Hockey only when it is needed and then I leave the sport for years at a time. Last night was one of those nights. After several drinks earlier in the night at Lotus Lounge to celebrate Alica&#8217;s Birthday we moved on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[17],"tags":[24,212,248,368],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-air-hockey","tag-lotus-lounge","tag-new-york-city","tag-the-living-room"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-4I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}