{"id":14502,"date":"2015-01-22T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14502"},"modified":"2015-01-22T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:39:25","slug":"sports-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/01\/22\/sports-and-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"sports and all that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3673871\/seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/\">Bwah ha ha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We shall overcome #MLKDay,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official account tweeted Monday, which honors Martin Luther King, Jr. The tweet also included a picture of quarterback Russell Wilson crying after his victory Sunday and a quote from King that read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Faith. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first steps.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The organization deleted the tweet after users called it tasteless and offensive. Within two hours, the football team posted an apology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We apologize for poor judgment shown in a tweet sent earlier. We did not intend to compare football to the civil rights legacy of Dr. King.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Except they kind of just did.\u00c2\u00a0 One&#8217;s overcoming 400 years of systematic oppression.\u00c2\u00a0 The other is overcoming a 16 point deficit in a football game.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re comparable.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I think sports reporting is silly.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re searching for analogies to make it real with the Real World, and how they&#8217;re metaphors for things and stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they can do what Scientology did, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/leave-churchill-out-of-scientology-says-family-1830518.html\">piss off the estate of Winston Churchill <\/a>and tweet about &#8220;Our Finest Hour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What other highly bad historical analogies can you think of to describe some dramatic sports comeback?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bwah ha ha. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We shall overcome #MLKDay,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official account tweeted Monday, which honors Martin Luther King, Jr. The tweet also included a picture of quarterback Russell Wilson crying after his victory Sunday and a quote from King that read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Faith. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first steps.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14503,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions\/14503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}