Is professional wrestling a legitimate vehicle for artistic expression? I don’t think so. Is it the Why, you might reasonably ask, does my friend even care about professional Which brings us to another question: Can we categorize people who shop at Wal-Mart as So yes, you might reasonably conclude, consumers who shop at Wal-Mart undermine their POSTSCRIPT:<\/STRONG> Marc Weisblott, Is professional wrestling a legitimate vehicle for artistic expression? I don’t think so. Is it the future of sports entertainment in this country? I hope not. Nonetheless, I pass along a friend’s recommendation of Barry Blaustein’s documentary, “Beyond the Mat,” for what he calls “its excellent, objective view of the world of pro wrestling.” Why, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfuture of sports entertainment in this country? I hope not. Nonetheless, I pass along a friend’s
\nrecommendation of Barry Blaustein’s documentary,
\nthe Mat,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> for what he calls “its excellent, objective view of the world
\nof pro wrestling.”<\/P>
\n
\nwrestling? Because it is the entertainment of choice for a very large segment of the U.S.
\npopulation, and we should understand what our neighbors watch and why. Besides, many people
\nhave said that the best times to go to a Wal-Mart is during the telecast of a pro wrestling
\nmatch or a NASCAR event.<\/P>
\n
\nsubversive shoppers?
\nharm<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> rather than help local economies in a variety of
\nways, like displacing local merchants and refusing to use local vendors (besides
\npaying sub-standard wages and benefits). <\/P>
\n
\nlocal economies: Instead of shopping for the greater good, they just shop to save eight cents on a
\nroll of toilet paper.<\/P>
\n
\nextraordinaire<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, recently wrote: “I’m not anti-Wal-Mart out of any sort
\nof principle, but I can’t say I’ve experienced any satisfaction after shopping there. Case in point:
\nFruit of the Loom boxer briefs, two pair for six bucks. In fact, I picked up two such packages, but
\nforfeited one at the register because it wasn’t the discount kind. The reason why became apparent
\nonce home–they are the “two pouch” variety, featuring a fly that boasts of being “easy to use” on
\nthe basis that it’s horizontal<\/I>. Whose invention was that?”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"