{"id":1231,"date":"2007-03-13T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/even-the-liberal-new-republic\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T16:20:20","slug":"even-the-liberal-new-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/even-the-liberal-new-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Liberal New Republic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/basketball\">blogging about basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this was inevitable, because college basketball is inherently a liberal sport. There&#8217;s no sports analogue for welfare and affirmative action better than the &#8220;atuomatic bid&#8221; system that allows small conference champions into the NCAA tournament, giving them the same chance at the title as teams from the power conferences.<\/p>\n<p>College <b>football<\/b> on the other hand, is the quintessentially conservative sport, at least in the modern Republican sense of &#8220;conservative.&#8221; Two teams are hand-picked from the power conferences to play for the &#8220;championship,&#8221; while everybody else is locked out. The rich get richer, and the poor play in the Humanitarian Bowl a week before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey, of course, represents libertarianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is blogging about basketball. Of course, this was inevitable, because college basketball is inherently a liberal sport. There&#8217;s no sports analogue for welfare and affirmative action better than the &#8220;atuomatic bid&#8221; system that allows small conference champions into the NCAA tournament, giving them the same chance at the title as teams from the power&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/even-the-liberal-new-republic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even the Liberal New Republic&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}