{"id":18,"date":"2012-01-04T04:34:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?p=18"},"modified":"2012-11-28T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:43:06","slug":"why-does-watching-short-have-such-an-emotional-effect-on-people-okay-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.elliottfamily.ca\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Why does watching sport have such an emotional effect on people, okay me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so here&#8217;s a question, why does watching the world junior hockey championships on tv and seeing Canada get destroyed have such an impact on me? I have never played hockey so I don&#8217;t understand why I am so emotionally involved. yet here I am at 1130 at night after watching Canada lose and can&#8217;t sleep.<\/p>\n<p>it seems to be worse for the Raptors. I watched them play yesterday and I was so mad I stormed out of the room and swore.<\/p>\n<p>at least for the Raptors I understand it. It is about fairness. The refs always seem to have a hate on for them.\u00c2\u00a0 for someone who according to my wife is emotionally distant I have a lot of emotions for sports. Okay she has never said that. But I do tend to be very emotionally stable.<\/p>\n<p><edit><br clear=\"none\"><\/br><br \/>\nDamn! Found out that after I turned the game off Canada came back and almost tied. I turned it off at 6 to 1, Canada came back to make the final score 6 to 5. Oh well. A loss is aloss.<br clear=\"none\"><\/br><br \/>\n<\/edit><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so here&#8217;s a question, why does watching the world junior hockey championships on tv and seeing Canada get destroyed have such an impact on me? I have never played hockey so I don&#8217;t understand why I am so emotionally involved. yet here I am at 1130 at night after watching Canada lose and can&#8217;t sleep. 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