{"id":11067,"date":"2023-11-13T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:51:02","slug":"guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/11\/guts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was my day off for the Veterans Day holiday, and I managed to come down with bronchitis. What a waste of a holiday. I’m ill enough that I can’t do anything fun, but not so ill that I can sleep all day. By mid-afternoon, I got so bored that I was reduced to watching sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, the World Flying Disc Federation recently posted the final game of the 2023 Asia-Oceanic Guts Championships, held on September 6-10 in Manila, Philippines.<\/a> Guts is that crazed game where five players line up 14 meters apart, and try to throw a flying disc (a.k.a. “frisbee”) so hard the other team can’t catch it. The flying disc can travel as fast as 80 m.p.h., requiring fast reactions and a high tolerance for pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m generally not much of a sports fan. But I watched the entire hour-long Asia-Oceanic guts final. And you know what? \u2014 It took my mind off my hacking cough, it took my mind off all the wars in the world, it took my mind off the growing effects of climate change. It was like meditation, only better (for me, anyway). Maybe that’s one reason why sports is now bigger than religion in the U.S. (or, more precisely, sports is now the biggest religion in the U.S.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>
Screenshot of the 2023 Asia-Oceanic guts final match \u2014 Japan has just thrown, and you can see the blurred bright orange flying disc about three quarters of the way to Chinese Taipei \u2014 click the image to watch the game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Guts rules at World Flying Disc Federation<\/a> \u2014 Guts Players Association<\/a> \u2014 USA Guts team<\/a> (with game videos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was my day off for the Veterans Day holiday, and I managed to come down with bronchitis. What a waste of a holiday. I’m ill enough that I can’t do anything fun, but not so ill that I can sleep all day. By mid-afternoon, I got so bored that I was reduced to watching … Continue reading “Guts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1145,1067,1150,961],"class_list":["post-11067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-china","tag-guts","tag-japan","tag-sport-as-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}