{"id":852533,"date":"2026-09-18T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852533\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:18:11","slug":"when-santa-met-dolly-in-the-best-things-ever-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852533\/","title":{"rendered":"When Santa Met Dolly in the Best Things Ever Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Blazer\u2019s Edge Best Things Ever Bracket rolls on today as the Sweet Sixteen gets narrowed down even further. For those new to the process, over the last couple of weeks we\u2019ve been discussing the merits and general coolness of 64 generally-interesting items, chosen fairly randomly and seeded into a March Madness-like tournament. Each day we post two articles, each with a choice between two of the entrants. You vote for one and explain your reasoning in the comments section. The winners advance until we\u2019ve crowned a Best Thing Ever for 2026. It\u2019s our way of passing time during the slow NBA offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This post gives you a really tough choice! You either need to vote for Santa Claus or Dolly Parton. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Santa is a symbol of goodwill and peace, a jolly old elf who drives a low-carbon-footprint sleigh and brings toys to boys and girls everywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dolly is a symbol of goodwill and peace who made some nifty country songs and then spent the rest of her life reminding us to be kind to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">So who are you going to vote for, Dolly or Santa? Share your thoughts in the comments and we\u2019ll see who goes onward in the tournament and who goes ho, ho, home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blazer\u2019s Edge Best Things Ever Bracket rolls on today as the Sweet Sixteen gets narrowed down even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,328462,99],"class_list":["post-852533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}