{"id":2621,"date":"2014-09-16T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2014-09-16T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:59:28","slug":"the-nfl-and-spartacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/the-nfl-and-spartacus\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL, Women and Spartacus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spartacus.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2624\" alt=\"Spartacus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spartacus.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Nobody can stop talking about the NFL. \u00a0Me neither. \u00a0Yesterday I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-G5\" target=\"_blank\">the complicity of broadcast networks and sponsors\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(who by the way paid my salary for more than 25 years) in this issue of women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s safety.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen so many tone-deaf people in my life. \u00a0Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/fashion\/alltherage\/la-ar-cover-girl-nfl-ads-protest-the-league-20140915-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">CoverGirl<\/a> can&#8217;t seem to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>But today, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stirrup-queens.com\/2014\/09\/microblogmondays-3-makes-me-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microblog Monday<\/a>, I have another question. \u00a0What do we do about this world of modern <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthistory.about.com\/od\/romeslavery\/p\/Gladiators.htm\" target=\"_blank\">gladiators<\/a> in a game that damages their brains until many of them are never able to think clearly again? \u00a0How do we protect them from the impact of the conditioning and brutality that is part of their work? \u00a0And what is the difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=newssearch&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CDUQqQIoADAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2F2014%2F09%2F15%2Fnfl-sponsors-pepsico-anheuser-busch-domestic-violence%2F15679451%2F&amp;ei=4V0YVIG9POOGjAKHooGgAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHatq2oCiM_-tJd0hSrEWylM1svFA&amp;bvm=bv.75097201,d.cGE\" target=\"_blank\">NFL owners <\/a>and those who sent Rome&#8217;s ancient, doomed fighters into the Coliseum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody can stop talking about the NFL. \u00a0Me neither. \u00a0Yesterday I wrote about the complicity of broadcast networks and sponsors\u00a0\u00a0(who by the way paid my salary for more than 25 years) in this issue of women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s safety.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen so many tone-deaf people in my life. \u00a0Even CoverGirl can&#8217;t seem to get it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/the-nfl-and-spartacus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The NFL, Women and Spartacus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[6,27,9,1007,97,29],"tags":[2857,2856,1892,670,2855,924,2854,1895,262,44],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-sports-2","category-television","category-women","tag-child-abuse","tag-covergirl","tag-domestic-violence","tag-football","tag-gladiators","tag-nfl","tag-spartacus","tag-spousal-abuse","tag-television-2","tag-women-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Gh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}