{"id":6343,"date":"2012-02-18T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2012-02-25T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:40:08","slug":"an-all-year-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/02\/18\/an-all-year-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"An All Year Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"TBS - Soccer by Ezra S F, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneezypb\/235502781\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/94\/235502781_7900567dbc_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"TBS - Soccer\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a> Some of my sports fan friends are a single game fan.When the season is over, they have nothing else about which to talk until recruits are chosen for the next. Over the past week, I saw a couple countdowns for certain baseball players to report to spring training. Since October they waited for this. Football, basketball, and hockey do not cut it for them.<\/p>\n<p>Something I like about soccer, football elsewhere in the world, is there is something going on all year round. The two leagues I mainly follow are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English Premier League starts mid August and ends mid May<\/li>\n<li>Major League Soccer starts mid March and ends early December<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there are the various special events like the World Cup, Champions League, Euro, CONCACAF, and FA Cup to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>There is always something happening. No time to catch a breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my sports fan friends are a single game fan.When the season is over, they have nothing else about which to talk until recruits are chosen for the next. Over the past week, I saw a couple countdowns for certain baseball players to report to spring training. Since October they waited for this. Football, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[2371,2370,2369,2372,2368,2380,888,889],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-concacaf","tag-english-premier-league","tag-fa-cup","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-posted-2012","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Ej","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}