{"id":2923,"date":"2009-10-27T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:55:21","slug":"things-have-gone-a-bit-to-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"Things have gone a bit to far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has warned footballers that spitting on the pitch during games greatly increases the risk of spreading swine flu among team-mates and opposition alike&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 http:\/\/www.extrafootie.co.uk\/news\/article\/30294\/<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;ve earlier raised the question &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/is-soccer-a-top-level-sport?blog=6\">Is soccer a top level sport?<\/a>&#8221; I must say that yes, soccer is a sport, and when doing sport you sometimes get the need to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spitting\">spit<\/a>. So claiming that it is disgusting&#8230;it is so Oprah Winfrey. I&#8217;ve been told that she has a spitting bag when out running&#8230;Oprah, running? I think not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has warned footballers that spitting on the pitch during games greatly increases the risk of spreading swine flu among team-mates and opposition alike&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 http:\/\/www.extrafootie.co.uk\/news\/article\/30294\/ Even though I&#8217;ve earlier raised the question &#8220;Is soccer a top level sport?&#8221; I must say that yes, soccer is a sport, and when doing sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14677,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/14677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}