{"id":76653,"date":"2021-02-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76653"},"modified":"2021-02-06T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:47:13","slug":"joe1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76653","title":{"rendered":"Click Baited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I confess, I am often tempted by those click-bait ads.\u00a0 This site advertises the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/sports\/the-10-greatest-sports-cheaters-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a010 Greatest Sports Cheaters.<\/a>The authors act as if it&#8217;s a big deal, as if the cheaters were some kind of villains and the people who called out the cheaters were some kind of heroes.<\/p><p>Who cares?\u00a0 You lost.\u00a0 Whether you lost fair and square or the other guy cheated to rob you of victory, what difference does it make?\u00a0 Move on.\u00a0 Try harder next time.<\/p><p>Besides, you have no proof, and even if you did, we don&#8217;t want to hear about it.\u00a0Questioning the result only undermines public confidence in the sport.\u00a0 In fact, your continued harping about it is so tiresome, we&#8217;re shutting down your social media account and if you don&#8217;t zip it, we&#8217;ll get you fired from your job.<\/p><p>Nobody likes a sore loser.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not who we are.\u00a0<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To suggest otherwise is seditious.  Maybe even Treason.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against sports, natch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, I am often tempted by those click-bait ads.\u00a0 This site advertises the\u00a010 Greatest Sports Cheaters.The authors act as if it&#8217;s a big deal, as if the cheaters were some kind of villains and the people who called out the cheaters were some kind of heroes. Who cares?\u00a0 You lost.\u00a0 Whether you lost fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76653","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=76653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76793,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76653\/revisions\/76793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}