{"id":2140,"date":"2018-09-09T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-09-09T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:48:40","slug":"blackburn-bredesen-agree-to-debate-about-soccer-team-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2018\/09\/09\/blackburn-bredesen-agree-to-debate-about-soccer-team-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn, Bredesen agree to debate about soccer team names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After plans had fizzled out regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/tn-elections\/2018\/09\/06\/marsha-blackburn-phil-bredesen-senate-race-down-two-debates-after-no-deal-reached-chattanooga\/1214623002\/\">possible October 1 debate<\/a> in Chattanooga, U.S. Senate race candidates Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen finally agreed to an impromptu Chattanooga debate yesterday as long as the topic was limited to selecting a name for the new Chattanooga Pro Soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear God, can we all agree that all of these names are pretty horrible?&#8221; said Blackburn. &#8220;I mean, Express? Generals? Ironhorses? Red Wolves? Sporting Chattanooga? Are you fucking kidding me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the one and only topic in which we are in total agreement,&#8221; said Bredesen. &#8220;The shit is weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should the public vote on this? This is democracy at its worst,&#8221; said Blackburn, with Bredesen nodding his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a kick in the balls, pun intended,&#8221; said Bredesen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chattanoogaprosoccer.com\/name-your-team\">Online voting<\/a> on the Chattanooga Pro Soccer website ends today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After plans had fizzled out regarding a possible October 1 debate in Chattanooga, U.S. Senate race candidates Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen finally agreed to an impromptu Chattanooga debate yesterday as long as the topic was limited to selecting a name for the new Chattanooga Pro Soccer team. &#8220;Dear God, can we all agree that all of these names are pretty horrible?&#8221; said Blackburn. &#8220;I mean, Express? Generals? Ironhorses? Red Wolves? Sporting Chattanooga? Are you fucking kidding me?&#8221; &#8220;This is the one and only topic in which we are in total agreement,&#8221; said Bredesen. &#8220;The shit is weak.&#8221; &#8220;Why should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}