{"id":950,"date":"2007-01-05T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/01\/05\/darts-sport-and-classics"},"modified":"2007-01-05T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:01:00","slug":"darts-sport-and-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/01\/05\/darts-sport-and-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Darts, Sport and Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading around darts, I came across this quote from darts commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidwaddell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sid Waddell <\/a>who once said (of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Bristow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Bristow &#8211; &#8220;the crafty cockney&#8221;)<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;When Alexander the Great was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Bristow is only 27.&#8217;<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.users.globalnet.co.uk\/~loxias\/sporting_quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.users.globalnet.co.uk\/~loxias\/sporting_quotes.htm<\/a> has more examples of classical references in sporting quotes..<br \/>Dave<\/p>\n<p><strong>p.s.<\/strong> &#8211; for Darts anoraks &#8211; some interesting facts about Bristow: he is a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polydactyly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polydactyl<\/a><\/strong> (he has six toes on his right foot), and also suffered from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dartitis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dartitis <\/a>&#8211; which is a psychological condition &#8211; which meant he somehow felt himself to be unable to let go of his dart when throwing it. The Oxford English Dictionary may well include dartitis in its next edition &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darts.150m.com\/Dartitisviews.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.darts.150m.com\/Dartitisviews.htm<\/a> for details.<br \/><strong><em>OK &#8211; I promise no more darts-facts, before we get off the topic&#8230; Comments on the post below (is darts a &#8216;sport&#8217;?) are still welcome.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading around darts, I came across this quote from darts commentator Sid Waddell who once said (of Eric Bristow &#8211; &#8220;the crafty cockney&#8221;) : &#8216;When Alexander the Great was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,43,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darts","category-philosophy","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}