{"id":37803,"date":"2013-10-02T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37803"},"modified":"2013-10-02T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:02:56","slug":"navy-air-force-academy-game-cancelled-by-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37803","title":{"rendered":"Navy-Air Force Academy game cancelled by shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc\/?post=343859\">Ace of Spades<\/a> who claims that despite the fact that service academy games are fully self-sufficient, the Department of Defense have suspended the series due to the government shutdown. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalgazette.com\/sports\/navy_sports\/concerns-grow-as-threat-of-air-force-navy-football-game\/article_fc1d84d8-7754-5390-a535-94262337612c.html\">Capital Gazette<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Naval Academy Athletic Association is a private organization not funded by the government. Gladchuk said the Air Force-Navy game could be held without any \u201cappropriated funding.\u201d Air Force recently created a similar athletic association that operates using private funds, donations and revenue from intercollegiate contests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could run our entire athletics program and conduct events as we always do without any government funds,\u201d Gladchuk said. \u201cIn talking to the Air Force athletic director, their football team could execute the trip without government funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked why the Department of Defense was suspending intercollegiate athletic contests if government funds are not required, Gladchuk said he was told it was about \u201coptics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a perception thing. Apparently it doesn\u2019t resonate with all the other government agencies that have been shut down,\u201d Gladchuk said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m also reading that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2013\/10\/shutdown-bullies-obama-admin-closes-privately-funded-park\/\">some parks that happen to be on Federal land<\/a>, but entirely funded privately are also forced to be closed. <\/p>\n<p>I guess shutting down the government isn&#8217;t painful enough on it&#8217;s own, they have to make shit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer sends us a link from Ace of Spades who claims that despite the fact &hellip; <a title=\"Navy-Air Force Academy game cancelled by shutdown\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37803\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy-Air Force Academy game cancelled by shutdown<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}