{"id":657526,"date":"2010-02-07T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21699"},"modified":"2010-02-07T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:57:45","slug":"brains-brawn-and-spectacle-%e2%80%93-superbowl-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657526","title":{"rendered":"Brains, Brawn and Spectacle \u2013 Superbowl Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Cynic writes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diatribemedia.com\/?p=303\" > Diatribe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though we definitely can act it, most Americans aren&#8217;t stupid, even football proves that. It takes a decent amount of brainpower to remember statistics, history, game strategy and betting strategy. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s so much misappropriated focus. We&#8217;ll spend countless hours, dollars and energy on this one game, then we&#8217;ll spend the same on March Madness, the World Series, the Stanley Cup and varried playoffs. In between, we&#8217;ll throw an equal amount of time and talent into Hallmark holidays and celebrity awards shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe: Though we definitely can act it, most Americans aren&#8217;t stupid, even football proves that. It takes a decent amount of brainpower to remember statistics, history, game strategy and betting strategy. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s so much misappropriated focus. We&#8217;ll spend countless hours, dollars and energy on this one game, then we&#8217;ll spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L3g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}