{"id":15129,"date":"2022-05-03T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/characterandleadership.com\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2022-05-03T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:21:57","slug":"the-opposite-of-composure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterandleadership.com\/the-opposite-of-composure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of Composure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a high school track meet in Florida, a competitor sucker-punched another runner in the 1,600 meter run. I dug all day for the back-story on this, but I could not find it. However, the video tells me all that I need to know.<\/p>\n<div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Track meet in Florida turns violent\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ScwfTysgld8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Joe&#8217;s Perspective:<\/strong> No excuse. If I were the coach, I would kick him off the team. No second chances. I would have called the police and pressed charges. There is no room in high school athletics for this nonsense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Turn:<\/strong> What is your big takeaway from this incident?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a high school track meet in Florida, a competitor sucker-punched another runner in the 1,600 meter run. I dug all day for the back-story on this, but I could not find it. 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If I were the coach, I would kick him off the team. &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/characterandleadership.com\/the-opposite-of-composure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Opposite of Composure - Character and Leadership<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/characterandleadership.com\/the-opposite-of-composure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Opposite of Composure - Character and Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a high school track meet in Florida, a competitor sucker-punched another runner in the 1,600 meter run. 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