{"id":6342,"date":"2009-02-02T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2009-02-02T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:43:58","slug":"6342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/02\/6342\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona&#8217;s Prayer at the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across a blog posting with the provocative title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniformvelocity.com\/2009\/02\/as-atheist-i-prefer-hockey.html\">As an Athiest, I Prefer Hockey<\/a> that contained the following image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6344\" title=\"superbowl-prayer1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/superbowl-prayer1.jpg\" alt=\"superbowl-prayer1\" width=\"320\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/superbowl-prayer1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/superbowl-prayer1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>I realized I had watched the Super Bowl and likely seen <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">this<\/span> a similar image. I have probably seen images of athletes gathered in prayer hundreds of times, to the point where they have become a taken-for-granted aspect of sport. It could be an interesting start to a discussion of religion and sport. Is this concentrated on sports that are primarily played in the US? Or only particular team sports? I don&#8217;t recall ever seen such prayer groups in basketball. Are such sights common in soccer or cricket?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across a blog posting with the provocative title, As an Athiest, I Prefer Hockey that contained the following image. I realized I had watched the Super Bowl and likely seen this a similar image. I have probably seen images of athletes gathered in prayer hundreds of times, to the point where they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,108],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6348,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}