{"id":5522,"date":"2009-03-16T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:43:00","slug":"the-roar-of-the-crowd-sports-fans-primal-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/the-roar-of-the-crowd-sports-fans-primal-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roar of the Crowd; Sports fans&#8217; primal behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v55\/i28\/28b00801.htm?utm_source=cr&#038;utm_medium=en\">The Roar of the Crowd; Sports fans&#8217; primal behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commentary<\/p>\n<p>Peter A. Facione: A Straight-Talk Survival Guide for Colleges<\/p>\n<p>By DAVID P. BARASH<\/p>\n<p>Marx was wrong: The opiate of the masses isn&#8217;t religion, but spectator sports. What else explains the astounding fact that millions of seemingly intelligent human beings feel that the athletic exertions of total strangers are somehow consequential for themselves? The real question we should be asking during the madness surrounding this month&#8217;s collegiate basketball championship season is not who will win, but why anyone cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: The Roar of the Crowd; Sports fans&#8217; primal behavior Commentary Peter A. Facione: A Straight-Talk Survival Guide for Colleges By DAVID P. BARASH Marx was wrong: The opiate of the masses isn&#8217;t religion, but spectator sports. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/the-roar-of-the-crowd-sports-fans-primal-behavior\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1288966,1288918],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-athletics","tag-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}