{"id":360,"date":"2008-09-01T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-09-01T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:25:57","slug":"this-is-a-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"This is a sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Tung and I are somewhat religious about the two requirements for an activity to be a sport &#8211; it must be (in principle) objectively scored and at least as athletic as bowling.\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iSVrXQqHL44\">Royal Navy Field Gun Competition<\/a> is a sport.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s also delightfully odd.\u00c2\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/gettheflick.blogspot.com\/\">Don Brown<\/a> brought this to my attention).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Tung and I are somewhat religious about the two requirements for an activity to be a sport &#8211; it must be (in principle) objectively scored and at least as athletic as bowling.\u00c2\u00a0 The Royal Navy Field Gun Competition is a sport.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s also delightfully odd.\u00c2\u00a0 (Don Brown brought this to my attention).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}