{"id":33962,"date":"2013-02-03T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33962"},"modified":"2013-02-03T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:46:07","slug":"a-sports-article-to-make-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33962","title":{"rendered":"A Super Bowl Sunday Article to Make You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of TAH&#8217;s readers follow sports somewhere between occasionally and religiously.\u00a0 I&#8217;d put myself somewhere in that range.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought I&#8217;d post this in honor of the Super Bowl Sunday &#8211; though it&#8217;s more generic than footbal-specific.<\/p>\n<p>Since we follow sports, most of us also unfortunately have heard more about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) than we probably wish we had.\u00a0 And we&#8217;ve seen more than a few sports &#8220;heroes&#8221; turn out to have feet of clay, too.<\/p>\n<p>A fellow named Bill Simmons has written an interesting article on the issue.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the single best and most thought-provoking articles I&#8217;ve read on the subject recently.\u00a0 You may or may not agree with Simmons &#8211; but the article, though fairly long, is IMO worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons&#8217; article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/8904906\/daring-ask-ped-question\">can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 I found it well worth the time.\u00a0 YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Author&#8217;s note:\u00a0 URL in link is fixed now.\u00a0 Sorry about the initial error.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of TAH&#8217;s readers follow sports somewhere between occasionally and religiously.\u00a0 I&#8217;d put myself somewhere in &hellip; <a title=\"A Super Bowl Sunday Article to Make You Think\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33962\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Super Bowl Sunday Article to Make You Think<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-society","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}