{"id":3842,"date":"2015-07-08T04:48:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2015-07-08T04:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:48:37","slug":"franks-place-spontaneity-disappearing-from-kids-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/franks-place-spontaneity-disappearing-from-kids-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank&#8217;s Place: Spontaneity disappearing from kids&#8217; sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It was the summer of 1996, and &#8211; stop me if youve heard this before &#8211; Philadelphia was enduring a sports slump.<\/p>\n<p>With little to occupy me here, an enterprising editor suggested a road trip, one whose primary purpose would be to locate pickup baseball games, the kind that once were hallmarks of American summers.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering none on the first day out, I headed for what seemed like a logical destination, Cooperstown, NY, a town built on and devoted to baseball.<\/p>\n<p>There I encountered skateboarders at Doubleday Field, a re-creation of 19th-century town ball, and an organized baseball tournament at the Field of Dreams complex. But no pickup games. So I phoned the local high school coach for a scouting report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/sports\/phillies\/20150705_Frank_s_Place__Spontaneity_disappearing_from_kids__sports.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the summer of 1996, and &#8211; stop me if youve heard this before &#8211; Philadelphia was enduring a sports slump. With little to occupy me here, an enterprising editor suggested a road trip,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}