{"id":663,"date":"2008-08-14T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-08-14T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:50:30","slug":"footballmarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Football=Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the annoying comparison of a football contract to a marriage. T<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080814\/ap_on_sp_fo_ne\/fbn_jets_fatigued_favre;_ylt=AlO.bvml41UrxVAYMkHE_tii24cA\">he AP continued that<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Favre retired in March, but then decided he still wanted to play. <strong>After a messy divorce with Green Bay<\/strong>, the Packers traded him to New York, where he&#8217;s going through his 18th training camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our media culture can&#8217;t tell the difference between a sports contract and a marriage. No wonder the institution of marriage is in trouble. I think this comes from an emerging idea that marriage is nothing more than a civil contract to be dissolved when at least one party finds the continuation of the contract to be inconvenient. <\/p>\n<p>So the question, is our society&#8217;s outlook of marriage to low, or our view of sports too high? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the annoying comparison of a football contract to a marriage. The AP continued that yesterday: Favre retired in March, but then decided he still wanted to play. After a messy divorce with Green Bay, the Packers traded him to New York, where he&#8217;s going through his 18th training camp. Our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Football=Marriage?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,16],"tags":[90,94,170],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-family-life","category-sports","tag-football","tag-marraige","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}