{"id":1445,"date":"2021-07-27T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:32:13","slug":"refusing-to-spar-with-an-israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/27\/refusing-to-spar-with-an-israeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing to spar with an Israeli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a story about a second Olympic judo competitor who has been sent home for refusing to spar with an Israeli, &#8220;apparently for political reasons&#8221; &#8212; i.e., over the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>I thought the whole point of the Olympics was to get nations to come together on neutral ground, irrespective of political differences. <\/p>\n<p>If every Olympian had to make some sort of moral judgment about competing against representatives of Nation X, where they do [fill in horrible thing], there would be very few competitors.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a story about a second Olympic judo competitor who has been sent home for refusing to spar with an Israeli, &#8220;apparently for political reasons&#8221; &#8212; i.e., over the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. I thought the whole point of the Olympics was to get nations to come together on neutral ground, irrespective of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/27\/refusing-to-spar-with-an-israeli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Refusing to spar with an Israeli&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}