{"id":902598,"date":"2026-04-30T05:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/esports-was-never-apolitical-we-just-pretended-it-was-and-we-cant-any-longer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:13:44","slug":"esports-was-never-apolitical-we-just-pretended-it-was-and-we-cant-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/esports-was-never-apolitical-we-just-pretended-it-was-and-we-cant-any-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports was never apolitical, we just pretended it was (and we can\u2019t any longer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does international politics affect esport? The simple answer is: the same way it affects every other aspect of your life, because everything is politics.\u00a0 It shapes the rights you have, the prices you pay, the stability of the systems around you, and even the small&#8230; Cecilia Ciocchetti <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2026\/04\/esports-is-political-and-it-matters\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does international politics affect esport? The simple answer is: the same way it affects every other aspect of your life, because everything is politics.\u00a0 It shapes the rights you have, the prices you pay, the stability of the systems around you, and even the small&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120841,3635],"tags":[149201,7231],"class_list":{"0":"post-902598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apolitical","8":"category-esports","9":"tag-apolitical","10":"tag-esports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}