{"id":6292,"date":"2021-03-16T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:18:49","slug":"bah-humbug-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/bah-humbug-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bah humbug"},"content":{"rendered":"

A current phenomenon which I don\u2019t understand is those people who are proudly and defiantly not keeping up with what\u2019s happening with the Americas Cup racing.<\/p>\n

Fair enough if something doesn\u2019t interest you, but it\u2019s the air of superiority that these people radiate that I don\u2019t get. When is being ignorant of something a source of self congratulation? I even heard a National radio announcer brag about missing the racing the other day because he was having a nana nap. Because actually, on some level, all sport is meaningless and doesn\u2019t matter in the real world. What is it about this\u00a0particular\u00a0<\/em>yacht race that makes it worse than any other sporting fixture?<\/p>\n

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Go Team New Zealand! (Sorry naysayers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A current phenomenon which I don\u2019t understand is those people who are proudly and defiantly not keeping up with what\u2019s happening with the Americas Cup racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-1Du","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2837,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/caption-competition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6292,"position":0},"title":"Caption competition","author":"Interloper11","date":"July 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Answers on the back of a postcard please. 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