{"id":1493,"date":"2010-06-06T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T03:39:06","slug":"ottawa-recreational-soccer-league-creates-wimpy-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Recreational Soccer League Creates Wimpy Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had to be said after I read <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/06\/01\/win-a-soccer-game-by-more-than-five-points-and-you-lose-ottawa-league-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children\u2019s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.<\/p>\n<p>The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league\u2019s newly implemented edict is intended to dissuade a runaway game in favour of sportsmanship. The rule replaces its five-point mercy regulation, whereby any points scored beyond a five-point differential would not be registered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were a parent of a child in this league, I would move them out.  When kids are not allowed to experience the pain of a good ass whooping, they are simply being protected from an experience that will drive them to strive harder.  The coddling has to stop or our children will grow up trained to roll over and take it because it can&#8217;t get any worse.<\/p>\n<p>These poor kids aren&#8217;t even old enough to realize they are getting OfficiallyScrewed.<\/p>\n<p>h\/t to my friend Iain for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had to be said after I read this story. In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children\u2019s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default. The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league\u2019s newly implemented edict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moonbattery","category-officiallyscrewed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}