{"id":1070,"date":"2007-07-18T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2007-07-18T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T13:51:56","slug":"i-smell-a-patriot-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"I Smell A Patriot Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Blount has the vapors<\/a> over Dirk Boogard’s Fight Camp:<\/p>\n

It’s all about the kids. At least, it’s all about the $40 the young’uns pay to get a T-shirt splashed with fake blood and watch a videotape of Boogaard’s most ferocious beatdowns. The big guy seems to have a gift for entrepreneurship, but he’s going to have to work on his debate skills to sell this dubious venture to a sporting public weary of unchecked violence in its games.<\/p>\n

“That is awfully young to even know the ugly side of the game,” said Dr. Aynsley Smith, a sports psychologist and researcher at the Mayo Clinic’s Sports Medicine Center. “It’s counterproductive to the direction we’re trying to go as we try to grow the game among kids [in Minnesota].”<\/p>\n

Anyone who has spent enough time in an ice rink to get cold has heard the logic-bending arguments of the blood-hockey crowd. Skilled players need protection from physical opponents. Eliminating fighting would lead to more high-sticking and other dangerous behavior. Fisticuffs provide a necessary outlet in a physically rough game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, ordinarily I wouldn’t care, since hockey is more boring than NASCAR racing.<\/p>\n

But I’m thinking a Patriot Forum featuring a point-counterpoint between Blount, and, say, Elder or JB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Blount has the vapors over Dirk Boogard’s Fight Camp: It’s all about the kids. At least, it’s all about the $40 the young’uns pay to get a T-shirt splashed with fake blood and watch a videotape of Boogaard’s most ferocious beatdowns. The big guy seems to have a gift for entrepreneurship, but he’s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}