{"id":6087,"date":"2014-10-19T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2014-10-19T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:22:02","slug":"destructive-bubble-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/destructive-bubble-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destructive Bubble of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Capture.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Capture-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>If you have a child involved in sports or are a fan of sports, whether high school, college, or pro, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/the-boys-in-the-clubhouse.html?_r=0\">New York Times article<\/a> should be really unsettling to you.<\/p>\n<p>Sports can be a wonderful world\u00a0to instill healthy values, attitudes, and life skills. But, what has been spotlighted recently, from the Sayresville, NJ high school football team to Ray Rice, sports is also a Bizarro world in which talented athletes live in in a bubble where right and wrong are not understood, respect and responsibility has been replaced by rights and entitlement, and where money, fame, and power rule.<\/p>\n<p>In what world are your children growing up in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a child involved in sports or are a fan of sports, whether high school, college, or pro, this New York Times article should be really unsettling to you. Sports can be a wonderful world\u00a0to instill healthy values, attitudes, and life skills. But, what has been spotlighted recently, from the Sayresville, NJ high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517],"tags":[908,74,58,909,910,698,911,569,61,137],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-abuse","tag-athletes","tag-competition","tag-criminal-behavior","tag-mlb","tag-morals","tag-nba","tag-nfl","tag-sports-2","tag-values"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}