{"id":4008,"date":"2012-04-29T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2012-04-29T05:28:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T09:28:56","slug":"kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you settle a friendly rivalry between the IT and Finance Departments at NYU Abu Dhabi?  At the bowling alley of course!<\/p>\n<p>And so it was set &#8211; Finance vs. IT, live from Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi.  The team with the highest average would be declared the champ.  Competition was intense and emotions were high.  As a proud member of Team Finance, I managed to bowl the best game of my life (218) and earn the highest individual score of the evening.  However on this night, it was the team score that mattered and IT edged Finance by a few pins.  So IT walked away with the trophy and bragging rights&#8230;until the rematch that is!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4008 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/abu-dhabi-20120320-00827\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Abu-Dhabi-20120320-00827-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4011\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4011'>\n\t\t\t\tDon&#8217;t talk to me, I&#8217;m in the zone!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/dscf0050\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCF0050-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4012\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4012'>\n\t\t\t\tTrophy or no trophy &#8211; Finance had a great time\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/with-sam-don-asst-treasurer-in-from-ny-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/with-sam-don-asst-treasurer-in-from-ny1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4010\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4010'>\n\t\t\t\tBy the third game, Finance was looking a little sluggish\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/group-copy-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/group-copy-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4019\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4019'>\n\t\t\t\tDespite the rivalry, Finance and IT came together for a nice group shot\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you settle a friendly rivalry between the IT and Finance Departments at NYU Abu Dhabi? At the bowling alley of course! And so it was set &#8211; Finance vs. IT, live from Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi. The team with the highest average would be declared the champ. Competition was intense&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/kingpin\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,11],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","tag-sports","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}