{"id":64808,"date":"2017-10-16T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64808"},"modified":"2017-10-14T20:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T01:45:51","slug":"virtue-flagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64808","title":{"rendered":"Virtue Flagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Players continue to kneel for the national anthem so the NFL decided not to broadcast that part of the game.\u00a0 Out of sight, out of mind, right?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Fans aren\u2019t stupid.\u00a0 We can tell you\u2019re trying to hide the ball and we know you\u2019re doing it because you\u2019re siding with the protesters against the fans, which annoys us even more.\u00a0 Ratings are <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/10\/eagles-win-no-national-anthem-thursday-night-football-ratings-panthers-nfl-cbs-1202187779\/\">down another 5% from last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect we\u2019re going to get a new self-destructive behavior metaphor: kill the golden goose, cut off your nose to spite your face, hoist on your own petard, New Coke, shoot yourself in the foot, and soon: \u201cpulling an NFL\u201d meaning \u201cdriving away your own customers to prove how virtuous you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re smarter than us, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Players continue to kneel for the national anthem so the NFL decided not to broadcast that part of the game.\u00a0 Out of sight, out of mind, right? No.\u00a0 Fans aren\u2019t stupid.\u00a0 We can tell you\u2019re trying to hide the ball and we know you\u2019re doing it because you\u2019re siding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808","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=64808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64814,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808\/revisions\/64814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}