{"id":4422,"date":"2014-02-02T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:47:03","slug":"thng-a-day-2-reflecting-on-armored-handegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/thng-a-day-2-reflecting-on-armored-handegg\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Armored Handegg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is national stuff-yourself-and-watch-TV day for many people (and pay-thousands-of-dollars-to-chill-out-literally-in-a-stadium day for some), and Harper’s Bazaar has just the thing for women like me: <\/p>\n

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Oh wait, this advice is not for me. I really just don’t care. (Not saying you shouldn’t, just that I don’t.) One thing I do love about this time, though, is that some of my friends have used this as a day to share photos of exceptionally beautiful owls, including this, the official owl of the season: <\/p>\n


\n(See it larger at mlkshk<\/a>.)\n<\/div>\n

But particularly when I see photos of bizarrely expensive tickets, not to mention when I hear about new stadium projects – that will allegedly bring “jobs” and “revenue” to communities but always, oddly, seem to end up skimming money for team owners and other corporations – I realize that a pretty big part of my indifference to the sport stems from some even more basic misgivings about the industry.<\/p>\n


\nRead the full comic at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Blah blah pro athletes know what they’re getting into, but there’s a lot of sidetracking in the years leading up to NFL recruitment, and it’s pretty misleading and exploitive, not to mention a drag on university (and high school) resources.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I can’t honestly say this event didn’t bring at least one smile to my face: teams from 2 states that just legalized pot getting together for a super bowl. Good thing everyone’s already stocked up on snacks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is national stuff-yourself-and-watch-TV day for many people (and pay-thousands-of-dollars-to-chill-out-literally-in-a-stadium day for some), and Harper’s Bazaar has just the thing for women like me: Oh wait, this advice is not for me. I really just don’t care. (Not saying you shouldn’t, just that I don’t.) One thing I do love about this time, though, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[571,1007,1165,1167,1342],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thing-a-day","tag-headbrick","tag-reflecting","tag-super-bowl","tag-superb-owl","tag-thing-a-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-19k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}