{"id":15005,"date":"2015-12-24T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15005"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:07:47","slug":"not-the-only-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/24\/not-the-only-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Only Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> sports columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/columns\/benjamin-hochman\/hochman-crowd-nothing-to-brag-about\/article_dfb18132-1d0c-5572-ba60-a76538cc7e47.html\" target=\"_blank\">identifies a reason for empty seats at an annual Mizzou basketball game in St. Louis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stat that was most eye-catching from the game? Total attendance: 14,456.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams entered the game with some bad losses on their records. But Missouri? Man, its fan base is apathetic because its team is often pathetic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Missing from his explanation: the continuing ire of alumni after the recent &#8216;strike&#8217; by members of the (often pathetic) football team that led to the dismissal\/resignation of a couple of high-ranking administration.<\/p>\n<p>University of Missouri lost a lot of goodwill from its graduates in that fiasco, and its repercussions are going to echo for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist identifies a reason for empty seats at an annual Mizzou basketball game in St. Louis: The stat that was most eye-catching from the game? Total attendance: 14,456. Both teams entered the game with some bad losses on their records. But Missouri? Man, its fan base is apathetic because its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15006,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions\/15006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}