{"id":74144,"date":"2017-08-23T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74144"},"modified":"2017-08-23T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:48:32","slug":"the-dumbest-thing-youll-read-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74144","title":{"rendered":"The dumbest thing you&#8217;ll read today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74145\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robert-Lee-and-Robert-E-Lee-640x480-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robert-Lee-and-Robert-E-Lee-640x480-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robert-Lee-and-Robert-E-Lee-640x480-444x333.png 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robert-Lee-and-Robert-E-Lee-640x480-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Robert-Lee-and-Robert-E-Lee-640x480.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/23\/business\/media\/robert-lee-university-virginia-charlottesville.html?mcubz=3\">New York Times<\/a> reports that ESPN has reassigned an announcer to broadcast a football game at the University of Virginia because he shares a name with the Confederate General, Robert E. Lee. ESPN claims that they made the decision because of &#8220;safety concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sure hope that the broadcaster doesn&#8217;t have any statues in his yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that ESPN has reassigned an announcer to broadcast a football game &hellip; <a title=\"The dumbest thing you&#8217;ll read today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74144\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The dumbest thing you&#8217;ll read today<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74144","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=74144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}