{"id":26473,"date":"2022-11-20T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26473"},"modified":"2022-11-20T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:32:02","slug":"im-conflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26473","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m conflicted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the world cup starting today, I&#8217;m conflicted about watching it knowing what I know about Qatar&#8230;the country is one of the biggest human rights abusers on the globe and it should not be rewarded for it&#8230;and they bribed their way to getting the tournament in well known corruption that FIFA always seems to be involved in&#8230;but the biggest reason that gives me pause is the fact that over 6,000 laborers died constructing the venues and infrastructure needed to support the games&#8230;.and many, many more went unpaid like slaves so the rulers could make money from the games&#8230;.so, will I watch the tournament&#8230;yeah, probably, but I&#8217;m not sure how much I&#8217;ll enjoy it&#8230;especially since the rulers there have put strict rules on the broadcasts so they get only good propaganda out of it&#8230;no criticism is allowed at all&#8230;still don&#8217;t think these games should have even been awarded to what is a dictatorship that abuses it&#8217;s people&#8230;but FIFA equals corruption so what can you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the world cup starting today, I&#8217;m conflicted about watching it knowing what I know about Qatar&#8230;the country is one of the biggest human rights abusers on the globe and it should not be rewarded for it&#8230;and they bribed their way to getting the tournament in well known corruption that FIFA always seems to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m conflicted&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3537,104],"class_list":["post-26473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-qatar","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26474,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions\/26474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}