{"id":1007,"date":"2009-03-05T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2009-03-05T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T05:30:22","slug":"watching-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/clock3.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>Time only counts if you&#8217;re in jail, so the saying goes. But <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> contributor Frank Deford begs to differ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate it when somebody says that some football coach exhibits good &#8216;clock management,'&#8221; said Deford, in his March 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101393661\">commentary <\/a>on National Public Radio. &#8220;Basically that means he just knows how to waste time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cutting horse competitors understand the judiciousness of this tactic. But they also dread a sluggish clock, when pressed by an ornery cow.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;saved by the buzzer&#8221; can be as fitting in the cutting arena as in the boxing arena.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the time warp are 2 1\/2-minute cutting performances that drag out, you could swear, to five minutes, with Benjamin Button minding the clock. This is only slightly preferable to the &#8220;now you see it, now you don&#8217;t&#8221; cut, where the first cow exceeds the speed of light and time and the horse stand still.<\/p>\n<p>While Deford doesn&#8217;t talk about cutting, he does ring the buzzer on the time clock. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101393661\">here <\/a>to read or listen to <em>Watching the Clock<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time only counts if you&#8217;re in jail, so the saying goes. But Sports Illustrated contributor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}