{"id":29048,"date":"2012-07-19T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29048"},"modified":"2012-07-19T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:56:15","slug":"hey-minnesota-combat-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29048","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Minnesota Combat Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/minnesota-governor-defends-vikings-rb-adrian-peterson-071812\">According to Governor Mark &#8220;Bored DIlettante&#8221; Dayton<\/a>, NFL players get into trouble &#8211; bar scuffles, DUIs, shooting each other, dogfighting &#8211; because they&#8217;re <em>just like you<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Football players aren&#8217;t ordinary citizens, [the Governor] said, and compared the game to combat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s basically slightly civilized war, and then they take that into society, much as solders come back, and they&#8217;ve been in combat or the edge of it and then suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge,&#8221; Dayton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You heard him right. \u00a0The Governor &#8211; who got a draft deferment by staying in college and then working as a substitute teacher until his number went away &#8211; says that NFL players, many of whom started on the fast track to stardom in high school, waltzed through college in dumbed-down academic programs and &#8220;work&#8221; at playing an overgrown sandlot game for millions of dollars a year, misbehave because they&#8217;re just like you are after you get home from a tour or two in Afghanistan or Iraq (or Desert Storm or Vietnam).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Governor Mark &#8220;Bored DIlettante&#8221; Dayton, NFL players get into trouble &#8211; bar scuffles, DUIs, shooting each other, dogfighting &#8211; because they&#8217;re just like you: Football players aren&#8217;t ordinary citizens, [the Governor] said, and compared the game to combat. &#8221;It&#8217;s basically slightly civilized war, and then they take that into society, much as solders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048","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=29048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29050,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29048\/revisions\/29050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}