{"id":19027,"date":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=3a13d0e7e053154c198d94030a1aadd5"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:00:00","slug":"bonus-the-nfls-violent-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/02\/01\/bonus-the-nfls-violent-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"BONUS: The NFL&#8217;s Violent Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>This year in the National Football League, there have been 281 recorded concussions that players have suffered \u2014 spanning from the pre-season right up to the last playoff games. This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday. That is a macabre sort of record \u2014 it represents the most concussions in a season since the NFL started keeping track six years ago. The hits that these players take over and over during their careers can lead to very serious brain damage and a\u00a0 degenerative condition known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE.<\/p><p>We are doing this special episode of Intercepted to highlight a gut-wrenching new short film that The Intercept\u2019s Josh Begley has directed. It is called \"Concussion Protocol.\"<\/p><p>In this special bonus episode of Intercepted, Josh Begley, The Intercept\u2019s Shaun King and Donte Stallworth, a ten year veteran of the NFL, discuss brain injuries, the #TakeAKnee protests, and Trump\u2019s attacks on athletes.<\/p><p>Josh Begley\u2019s video \u201cConcussion Protocol\u201d can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/NFL\">theintercept.com\/NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n       &#10;&nbsp;<br \/><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; '  rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https:\/\/acast.com\/privacy'>acast.com\/privacy<\/a> for privacy and opt-out information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/bonus-thenflsviolentballet\">Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This year in the National Football League, there have been 281 recorded concussions that players have suffered \u2014 spanning from the pre-season right up to the last playoff games. This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday. That is a macabre sort of reco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798401,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/798401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}