{"id":65414,"date":"2016-04-23T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65414"},"modified":"2016-04-23T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T21:30:24","slug":"ignorance-admitted-for-a-saturday-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65414","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Admitted &#8211; for a Saturday Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preface: What follows is in no way intended to sound racist or involve any of them <strong>other<\/strong> evil words that get the SJWs (Social Justice Warriors) all in a tizzy.\u00a0 It merely highlights my personal ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>In many parts of the world there is a sport frequently called &#8220;football&#8221; played by locals that involves a round ball. In many countries the game has all of the external trappings we associate with &#8220;FOOTBALL&#8221;.\u00a0 So I might be forgiven for mistaking a headline that mentions football for this other sport.<\/p>\n<p>However, today I found this during my daily&#8217; news cruise&#8217;: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/sports\/1.715825\">Football IFL: Rebels Win Second?straight Israel Bowl Title<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Judean Rebels completed a successful title defense on Thursday of last week, overcoming a slow start to defeat the Tel Aviv Pioneers 32-14 in front of almost 1,000 fans in Petah Tikva.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They ain&#8217;t playing Soccer folks.\u00a0 You can click on the link and see a pix of folks in pads and helmets, but I gotta offer one more quote:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Rebels ended up punting before the game ended, and three plays later the Judean celebrations began.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who, among this erudite group, already knew that REAL football is a currently celebrated sport in Israel (other than Hondo(grin))?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface: What follows is in no way intended to sound racist or involve any of them &hellip; <a title=\"Ignorance Admitted &#8211; for a Saturday Silly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65414\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignorance Admitted &#8211; for a Saturday Silly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}