{"id":32853,"date":"2022-02-13T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32853"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:13:30","slug":"cheating-your-way-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32853","title":{"rendered":"Cheating your way to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheating&#8221; may be too strong a term for what Pete Stauber did to lead his 1988 hockey team to the National Championships. I had read a criticism of Pete in City Pages four years ago but two years later when I saw his moving his team&#8217;s goal posts to prevent the other team from making a goal I commented on it this way: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31583\">https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31583<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where the video comes from: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/congressional-candidate-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-the-t-1823738026\">https:\/\/deadspin.com\/congressional-candidate-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-the-t-1823738026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a still I took on my computer with Pete clearly lifting the post off its pins: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51879243828_3ebf11d111_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fouling is part of every sport whether its using spit on a pitched ball or interfering with a football reception or a basketball. The sports all have penalties and sometimes like Pete no ref catches the offense even if an entire stadium or arena full of spectators sends up howls of protests.<\/p>\n<p>But fouling and getting away with it are more problematic in such things as business. Courts of law look dimly on cheating. Ditto Elections. Its not just a game. It can be life or death.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished this week&#8217;s column for the Duluth Reader. It began as a column on Russia&#8217;s designs in the Ukraine but landed on Pete Stauber and his idea about fairness judging by the company he keeps. It is not a charitable column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cheating&#8221; may be too strong a term for what Pete Stauber did to lead his 1988 hockey team to the National Championships. I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,86,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32858,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions\/32858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}