{"id":399,"date":"2006-06-08T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-06-08T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:38:51","slug":"the-mythical-power-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-mythical-power-of-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mythical Power of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It allows the masses to individually believe<br \/>\nwhen &#8220;their&#8221; team wins they the observer,<br \/>\nis a winner &#8211; they feel like a winner thru<br \/>\nsomeone else&#8217;s effort! From the couch<br \/>\nwe drink our beer, root for our &#8220;home team&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;hoot and howl, drink and growl&#8230;<br \/>\nAN OPIATE OF THE MASSES!<\/p>\n<p>Romans knew well the mythical power of sports<br \/>\nin the arena. Perhaps less bloody now &#8211; mostly the<br \/>\n&#8220;gladiators&#8221; these days die from steroid use &#8211; the<br \/>\nblood thirsty cries ARE  the same energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It allows the masses to individually believe when &#8220;their&#8221; team wins they the observer, is a winner &#8211; they feel like a winner thru someone else&#8217;s effort! From the couch we drink our beer, root for our &#8220;home team&#8221; &#8230;hoot and howl, drink and growl&#8230; AN OPIATE OF THE MASSES! Romans knew well the mythical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-mythical-power-of-sports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mythical Power of Sports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-spammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}