{"id":18,"date":"2006-12-09T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/2006\/12\/09\/the-solution\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T00:18:56","slug":"the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/2006\/12\/09\/the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has played any sport beyond elementary school knows that to maximize performance, supportive and positive fans can help substantially.\u00a0 Overly negative and pressuring fans tend to have the opposite effect.<\/p>\n<p>And so my proposal is simple: fans need to accept that this city has, in fact, been cursed.\u00a0 By facing that reality, we can then channel our energy collectively into being more positive and encouraging for all of our players and coaches in an effort to break the curse.<\/p>\n<p>It worked in Boston.\u00a0 It can work here as well.\u00a0 So stop feeling sorry for yourselves.\u00a0 Stop whining about all that&#8217;s gone wrong.\u00a0 Stop living in the past.\u00a0 Stop bracing for the worst when things look promising.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking this horrible cycle of losing will not be easy.\u00a0 But it has to start somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Start believing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has played any sport beyond elementary school knows that to maximize performance, supportive and positive fans can help substantially.\u00a0 Overly negative and pressuring fans tend to have the opposite effect. And so my proposal is simple: fans need to accept that this city has, in fact, been cursed.\u00a0 By facing that reality, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/philadelphiacurse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}