{"id":6261,"date":"2010-08-28T05:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:58:32","slug":"soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My youngest had his first soccer game this weekend and his team won.<\/strong> And, so did the other team. In fact, they don’t even keep score. It would seem that eight-year-olds are much too young and sensitive to handle the stress of competitive sports. I realize it’s important to teach kids the skills of the game and the importance of playing fair, but when you eliminate competition by telling them the goals don’t count, what’s their motivation? I’m sorry but socialist sports are not exciting to watch. The last time I checked we live in a capitalist country, where competition is an economic reality and sports fans like victories. Even if little Johnny feels bad that he’s not as good as little Billy. I despise the fact that my kids are part of the ‘blue ribbon’ generation where everybody wins. Losing may stink but it also builds a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My youngest had his first soccer game this weekend and his team won. And, so did the other team. In fact, they don’t even keep score. It would seem that eight-year-olds are much too young and sensitive to handle the stress of competitive sports. I realize it’s important to teach kids the skills of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-soccer","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}