{"id":4003,"date":"2006-12-03T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4003"},"modified":"2006-12-03T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:35:03","slug":"rasslin_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/rasslin_the_way\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasslin&#8217;, the way the it was meant to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could barely restrain my glee yesterday when I switched on the TV during the day, and found myself witnessing the 15th Asian Games in Doha.  Why, you may wonder?  Because I found myself watching (wait for it)&#8230;international, competitive, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kabaddi\">kabaddi<\/a><\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Kabaddi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kabaddi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Kabaddi-thumb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>One of the more eclectic sports, and for people such as myself who know nothing about the game other than its featuring scantily-clad, oiled-up men chanting, <em>kabbadi<\/em> is played by two seven-player teams, which take turns raiding each other&#8217;s side of the court.  One scores points either touching an opposing player and returning to your own side, or by an opposing team managing to prevent a raider from returning to his side.<\/p>\n\n<p>I mean, I sort of know what it&#8217;s all about, but my experience with <em>kabaddi<\/em> was limited to having heard about it, seen the occasional match while channel-surfing at 4:00 a.m., and once or twice, driving past Clifton Beach in Karachi on a Sunday evening and seeing what I was informed was a match in progress.  I certainly had no idea that <em>kabaddi<\/em> had hit an international level, and even less aware was I that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeninsulaqatar.com\/Display_news.asp?section=Sports_News&#038;subsection=Asian+Games&#038;month=December2006&#038;file=Sports_News2006120375735.xml\">Japan and Iran are also into the sport<\/a>.  I also had no idea that (a) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabaddi.org\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?p=6270&#038;sid=e8742211716803640469e4b54f2408bb\">this<\/a> existed, and (b) that there were some hotties involved in the game: \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/HottieKabaddi.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/HottieKabaddi.html','popup','width=1082,height=612,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/HottieKabaddi-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\nAm I just clueless about this, or did I somehow miss the (re?)surgence of <em>kabaddi<\/em>?\nBest of all though, I can&#8217;t help but feel somewhat vindicated by this image.  On behalf of all brown men everywhere who enjoy getting oiled up and tussling with other oiled-up men in skimpy clothing, I say carry on my brothers!  We shall overcome!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Victory.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Victory.html','popup','width=565,height=681,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Victory-thumb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could barely restrain my glee yesterday when I switched on the TV during the day, and found myself witnessing the 15th Asian Games in Doha. Why, you may wonder? Because I found myself watching (wait for it)&#8230;international, competitive, kabaddi. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/rasslin_the_way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}