{"id":2261,"date":"2009-01-27T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2009-01-27T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:35:20","slug":"the-angst-of-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-angst-of-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"The angst of basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=1220498\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Would Jesus run up the score?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>100-0 win raises an ethical firestorm for Christian school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honourable approach to competition,&#8221; Mr. Queal wrote in a note posted on the school&#8217;s Web site, just over a week after the Jan. 13 game. &#8220;The school and its representatives in no way support or condone the running up of a score against any team in any sport for any reason.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer to whether Jesus would run up the score is clearly, no, because he would not play girls&#8217; basketball in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The deeper theological question here is, is sport &#8211; which is a win-at-all-costs activity and inevitably brings out the most unsportsmanlike behaviour in all participants &#8211; an appropriate activity for a Christian? Or sensitive young ladies?\u00a0 Or big ugly Welsh rugby players?<\/p>\n<p>Or philosophers?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube= http:\/\/ca.youtube.com\/watch?v=92vV3QGagck]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Post Would Jesus run up the score? 100-0 win raises an ethical firestorm for Christian school &#8220;It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honourable approach to competition,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-angst-of-basketball\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2171],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}