{"id":77891,"date":"2012-05-05T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77891"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:31:26","slug":"event-non-violence-and-sport-tuesday-8th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77891","title":{"rendered":"Event: Non-violence and sport, Tuesday 8th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuesday 8th May:\u00a07pm until 9pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Housmans bookshop,\u00a05 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-violence and sport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion and debate led off this monthby Jim Jepps (editor of Big Smoke)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is sport usually just an excuse to indulge our most primitive tribalist instincts? Does the hysteria around many sports events bring out the worst in people?<\/p>\n<p>Can sport be a progressive force to bring people together across boundaries? Does the possibility of sport being progressive and having positive aspects depend on whether or not\u00a0 we\u2019re thinking of\u00a0 competitive team-based sports?<\/p>\n<p>Are the Olympics an example of all that\u2019s worst in sport? Is the fact that teams are \u201cnational\u201d teams the main problem?<\/p>\n<p>Are sports a way for the establishment to divert the mass of people from the necessity of struggling for social change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 8th May:\u00a07pm until 9pm Housmans bookshop,\u00a05 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1 &nbsp; Non-violence and sport. Discussion and debate led off this monthby Jim Jepps (editor of Big Smoke) Is sport usually just an excuse to indulge our most primitive tribalist instincts? Does the hysteria around many sports events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[722,217,398],"class_list":["post-77891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","tag-event","tag-meeting","tag-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/events.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20Jsr-kgj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77913,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77891\/revisions\/77913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}