{"id":1646,"date":"2014-01-29T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2014-01-31T00:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T06:55:03","slug":"is-college-football-a-labor-of-love-or-just-plain-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Pioneer 2013-Pioneer.body.copy\">Forty-hour work weeks; 13 or even 14 games; summer schedules; bowl seasons that take away the limited time before spring ball; TV networks; coaches making millions; the risk of brain trauma: players were consulted about none of it. And at some point, the dangling of a scholarship as appeasement \u2014 the ironic offering of the one thing the player might have little time to pursue: education \u2014 is not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Pioneer 2013-Pioneer.body.copy\">In fact, the argument that players are not amateurs is a false one, since it is only the coin universities use as payment \u2014 scholarships \u2014 that differs from real cash.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/sports\/25245552-419\/telander-is-college-football-a-labor-of-love-or-just-plain-labor.html\">TELANDER: Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor? &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-hour work weeks; 13 or even 14 games; summer schedules; bowl seasons that take away the limited time before spring ball; TV networks; coaches making millions; the risk of brain trauma: players were consulted about none of it. And at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1646\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}