{"id":27145,"date":"2020-11-17T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27145"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:49:37","slug":"when-your-boxing-metaphors-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/when-your-boxing-metaphors-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Boxing Metaphors Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, on the day after a Chicago Bears loss, I&#8217;m prowling the Chicago newspapers&#8217; Web sites, enjoying the rending of the sackcloths.  In <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears\/2020\/11\/17\/21572043\/bears-running-out-of-options-to-fix-offensive-woes\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one such document<\/a>, we get the coach offering some resigned optimism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you keep fighting, a punch will normally land,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cAnd if it\u2019s a good one \u2014 a nice little uppercut that knocks him out \u2014 then you get another and the next one is a body shot and you just keep throwing them. That\u2019s all you can do. You stay strong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically, in boxing and mixed martial arts, you pretty much stop punching once you&#8217;ve knocked your opponent out.  And on the street, if you&#8217;re so inclined because you&#8217;re a punk, you start kicking, not dropping on top of the opponent to punch his unconscious body.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, it&#8217;s <em>Chicago<\/em>.  Maybe they do things differently there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, on the day after a Chicago Bears loss, I&#8217;m prowling the Chicago newspapers&#8217; Web sites, enjoying the rending of the sackcloths. In one such document, we get the coach offering some resigned optimism: \u201cWhen you keep fighting, a punch will normally land,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cAnd if it\u2019s a good one \u2014 a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27145","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=27145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27146,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27145\/revisions\/27146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}