{"id":91133,"date":"2015-01-19T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91133"},"modified":"2015-01-19T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:13:33","slug":"victory-is-a-dish-best-seasoned-with-the-premature-gloating-of-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/01\/victory-is-a-dish-best-seasoned-with-the-premature-gloating-of-foes.html","title":{"rendered":"Victory is a Dish Best Seasoned with the Premature Gloating of Foes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

They can\u2019t say they weren\u2019t warned. \u00a0I sent out to the slavering mob of Packers fans the following pre-game warning yesterday:<\/p>\n

Huge wind storm here in Seattle. I can only assume it is the Holy Spirit conferring his blessing on the world-conquering Seattle Seahawks. All nature is verily ordered, ranked and ranged to bestow upon our mighty team her glories, benisons, and benedictions. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench\u2019d our steeples, drown\u2019d the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet, like a veritable Cassandra, all my cautions went unheeded and a mob of cheeseheads freely chose to be the authors of their own humiliation in a stark illustration of the futility of mocking a true prophet.<\/p>\n

Behold! A reading from the Book of Face, recording in real time the crushing of the hopes and dreams of those who dare mock the globe-bestriding colossi who are the now-Super-Bowl-bound Seattle Seahawks:<\/p>\n

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Sean P. Dailey<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
9 hrs<\/abbr><\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Springfield, IL<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00b7<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a bucket,\u00a0Mark<\/a>, for your tears. Let me know if you need another one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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