{"id":2095,"date":"2024-12-29T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T10:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2024-12-29T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T10:58:37","slug":"meerkat-prompts-founding-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: Founding a Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It should go without saying that my most likely choice for a mascot would be a meerkat, because what else would I choose?! The colour scheme would be gold and yellow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, with the obvious stuff out of the way, what would my team actually be? Would I found a Formula 1 team, or a football team? I love both sports, but both are very difficult to successfully break into (F1 in particular is very hard, as the existing teams jealously guard their prize money). Founding a football team would be more relatively straight-forward, but building a good, successful team would be an extreme challenge. You would have to start at the bottom of the pyramid, and developing a club from the ground up is no mean feat. Taking a team from the bottom to the top would take decades, involve a huge investment, and there would inevitably be bumps along the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, persevering with a football team would be a rewarding experience. Imagine taking a lowly amateur club to the dizzying heights of Champions League football. Meerkat Rangers, champions of Europe! It could happen&#8230; it probably won&#8217;t, but it could!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? It should go without saying that my most likely choice for a mascot would be a meerkat, because what else would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[72,128,15],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-dailyprompt","tag-dailyprompt-2167","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_1181-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}