{"id":28985,"date":"2021-09-23T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28985"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:44:56","slug":"try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/23\/try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local religious university, under pressure from some vocal but numerically small group or another, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2021\/09\/22\/evangel-university-unveils-new-mascot\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its mascot from the Crusaders<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>to <em>Valor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Um, yeah, no.  Try again.  Maybe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jYFefppqEtE\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Robins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or they could go with <em>Golden Eagles<\/em>, which is what the university I graduated from changed its mascot to to get out from the naked racism of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown begins until some vocal but numerically small group starts saying that <em>valor<\/em> is a white European thing that offends someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local religious university, under pressure from some vocal but numerically small group or another, changed its mascot from the Crusaders&#8230; to Valor. Um, yeah, no. Try again. Maybe the Robins. Or they could go with Golden Eagles, which is what the university I graduated from changed its mascot to to get out from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985","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=28985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28988,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}