{"id":2122,"date":"2020-03-13T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:50:34","slug":"nineveh-moment-8-empty-sports-arenas-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Nineveh moment (8)&#8230; empty sports arenas &#8212; good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basketball-arena.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basketball-arena.jpg 600w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basketball-arena-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/basketball-arena-483x300.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>al.com photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the NBA season is cancelled.  March Madness is over before it started&#8230;  Coronavirus cancelled.  Think about it.  We, the fans, have absolutely &#8220;deified&#8221; sports at this level, watching hour after hour of games, sports commentary, and so on.  Commensurately, how much are a majority of us, by comparison, watching (except for parents), the kids&#8217; games up the street in our community anymore?  Not much.  How much time are a majority of us, by comparison, spending in prayer, spiritual reading, outreach to the poor&#8230; each week?  Not much.  Tangible time spent with something indicates our <em>real<\/em> priorities.  That simple.  And in this case, that sad.  Time to realign our priorities in this area.  And the coronavirus is giving us time to withdraw from our pro\/Division I sports addiction in this country.  Or not. <strong> Note:<\/strong>  The NBA is now a $9 billion industry because we&#8217;re paying for the tickets and\/or watching it on TV (which is what sells the advertising).  The kid&#8217;s game up the street, on average, is, say, $4 bucks &#8212; with enough of this $9 billion left to, for instance, get food to the 24,000 people who starve to death every day in the Third World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of the NBA season is cancelled. March Madness is over before it started&#8230; Coronavirus cancelled. Think about it. We, the fans, have absolutely &#8220;deified&#8221; sports at this level, watching hour after hour of games, sports commentary, and so <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2122\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}