{"id":80049,"date":"2021-11-17T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80049"},"modified":"2021-11-17T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:31:31","slug":"the-anti-kaepernick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80049","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Kaepernick?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did the Boston Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/12\/shadow-benched-celtics-dramatically-slash-enes-kanters-playing-time-after-unveiling-anti-china-shoes\/amp\/\">bench Enes Kanter<\/a> for dunking on the Chicoms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What a difference a year and a few tweets slamming China for slave labor make. Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter has seen his playing time severely diminished after posting a series of social media messages attacking NBA partner China for oppressing its peoples, leaving some wondering if Kanter is being punished for his advocacy of freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Celtics are denying it.<\/p><p>The correct answer is \u201cof course they are\u201d\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I mean, isn\u2019t that what Kaepernick saga taught us? Allegation = guilt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<strong>Note<\/strong>: I apologize to those of you who had \u201cnever, ever\u201d in the \u201cwhen will Mitch write anything at all about the NBA?\u201c pool.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the Boston Celtics bench Enes Kanter for dunking on the Chicoms? What a difference a year and a few tweets slamming China for slave labor make. Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter has seen his playing time severely diminished after posting a series of social media messages attacking NBA partner China for oppressing its peoples, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,18,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-first","category-pc","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049","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=80049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80050,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049\/revisions\/80050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}