{"id":5027,"date":"2024-11-03T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:58:16","slug":"getting-off-sports-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/11\/getting-off-sports-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting off sports too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it with the Aces and WNBA playoffs, but also saw it far too often in the past few years in the NBA as well: very questionable calls from referees, calls that are changing the course of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Betting. Betting has ruined everything about games and sports, and continues to do so. What&#8217;s at stake (tons of money) and the accompanying incentives (cheating) are too strong.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well! More time to dive into other fun stuff in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it with the Aces and WNBA playoffs, but also saw it far too often in the past few years in the NBA as well: very questionable calls from referees, calls that are changing the course of the game. Betting. Betting has ruined everything about games and sports, and continues to do so. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}