{"id":6556,"date":"2004-08-18T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T21:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/18\/keeping-score.html"},"modified":"2004-08-18T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T21:55:41","slug":"keeping_score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/keeping_score.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping score"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I do tend to root for the US teams in the Olympics, I find I really dislike the Olympics score cards<\/a> that track medal counts by country. It’s a grotesque measurement of individual (or team) achievement, purports to heap glory (or ignomy) on a nation for no appreciable reason, and turns what should be a competition and celebration of amazing physical prowess into a tawdry “mine is bigger than yours” competition.<\/p>\n

Medal ceremonies with national anthems and the like are fine. Making the Olympics into a simplistic “My country can whip yours” table is irritating.<\/p>\n

Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I do tend to root for the US teams in the Olympics, I find I really dislike the Olympics score cards that track medal counts by country. It’s a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30306,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/all-those-darned-women-are-spoiling-things-for-manly-american-athletes.html","url_meta":{"origin":6556,"position":0},"title":"All those darned women are spoiling things for manly American athletes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Sep-12 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or that's at least what Phyllis Schlafly seems to be arguing; because we didn't have American men winning bazillions of gold medals in every event, it's because those poor, mistreated, masculine, true athletes were somehow cash-starved by all those wasteful, useless, worthless female athletic programs.Right, Phyllis. 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