{"id":545,"date":"2004-10-19T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-12-08T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T21:21:40","slug":"making-the-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/making-the-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatius of <a href=\"http:\/\/guinnessandpoker.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/it-is-never-too-late-to-be-what-you.html\">Guinness and Poker AKA Party Poker Blogs<\/a> is making that great leap to professional poker playing. He&#8217;s been playing poker at B&#038;Ms and online for years and years, and he&#8217;s finally going for it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is truly crazy stuff. Hell, I might get bored in a month and end up taking another job, who knows? I&#8217;ve discussed this ad naeseum with the wife and a few others and it all comes back to the same thing: I&#8217;m open to the Possibilities. I&#8217;m now recalling the classic dialogue from the movie Risky Business:<\/p>\n<p>Miles: Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, &#8220;What the fuck.&#8221; &#8220;What the fuck&#8221; gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. <\/p>\n<p>Who am I to argue with 80&#8217;s cinema, much less Booger, Curtis Armstrong?<\/p>\n<p>K, enough about me for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the fuck indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Iggy also reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/\">Mr. Wil Wheaton<\/a> will be joining us in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/dead-money.html\">Poker Blogger Tournament<\/a>. There are now 49 players registered. It&#8217;s sure to reach 51 before the day is out. <em>You<\/em> have two days left to join in the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatius of Guinness and Poker AKA Party Poker Blogs is making that great leap to professional poker playing. He&#8217;s been playing poker at B&#038;Ms and online for years and years, and he&#8217;s finally going for it: This is truly crazy stuff. Hell, I might get bored in a month and end up taking another job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}