{"id":3949,"date":"2007-10-09T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/statue-of-liberty-plays\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T18:35:21","slug":"statue-of-liberty-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/statue-of-liberty-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Liberty Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at TomDispatch, Robert Lipsyte looks at recent media sideshows involving Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Bill Belichick, et al., and wonders if there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=trickeration\">trickeration<\/a> afoot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After all, the powers-that-be love to promote sports scandals which encourage a hopelessness about the world as well as our ability to change or control it. Sports scandals liberate us from having to stand up, vote, demonstrate, move on. What&#8217;s the use when everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including our games and pastimes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is so obviously fixed, or at least a little bit crooked? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But as Lipsyte notes, there&#8217;s one story at the intersection of sports and war &#8220;that refuses to die \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 one that, it seems, could yet give us hope.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/174846\">Check it out<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at TomDispatch, Robert Lipsyte looks at recent media sideshows involving Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Bill Belichick, et al., and wonders if there&#8217;s trickeration afoot: After all, the powers-that-be love to promote sports scandals which encourage a hopelessness about the world as well as our ability to change or control it. Sports scandals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}