{"id":28,"date":"2021-09-26T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/?post_type=front-matter&#038;p=28"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:03:58","slug":"quotations","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/front-matter\/quotations\/","title":{"raw":"Epigraph","rendered":"Epigraph"},"content":{"raw":"<blockquote>\u201cIt is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look\u2014I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring\u2014caring deeply and passionately, really caring\u2014which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Na\u00efvet\u00e9\u2014the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball\u2014seems a small price to pay for such a gift.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: right;font-size: medium\">-- <em>Roger Angell, Agincourt and After<\/em><\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<blockquote>\u201cI can go back to rooting for the Browns now, like I did growing up.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: right;font-size: medium\">-- <em>London Fletcher, upon retiring after 16 seasons in the NFL,\u00a0none with the Browns.<\/em><\/div>\r\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/counter10.stat.ovh\/private\/freecounterstat.php?c=3k7lq4j3h6q17g9ax2472xlrkgth4l7p\" border=\"0\"><\/p>","rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look\u2014I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring\u2014caring deeply and passionately, really caring\u2014which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Na\u00efvet\u00e9\u2014the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball\u2014seems a small price to pay for such a gift.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;font-size: medium\">&#8212; <em>Roger Angell, Agincourt and After<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can go back to rooting for the Browns now, like I did growing up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;font-size: medium\">&#8212; <em>London Fletcher, upon retiring after 16 seasons in the NFL,\u00a0none with the Browns.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/counter10.stat.ovh\/private\/freecounterstat.php?c=3k7lq4j3h6q17g9ax2472xlrkgth4l7p\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false,"block_version":0},"author":126109,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[8],"contributor":[],"license":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126109"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/28\/revisions\/183"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/28\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elevengames.pressbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}