{"id":831,"date":"2008-06-10T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-06-10T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:32:48","slug":"nz-basketball-shambles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"NZ Basketball Shambles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.saints.co.nz\/>Saints<\/a> finish the National Basketball League regular season with an unbeaten record at home, sitting at the top of the table with 14 wins over 4 losses. Media coverage: small story inside back page of newspaper, no art.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Auckland Stars get <a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4578148a1823.html>kicked out of the playoffs because they didn&#8217;t pay their league fee<\/a>.<br \/>\nJust six years ago we finished <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2002_FIBA_World_Championship>fourth in the basketball world championships<\/a>, and now we&#8217;re stumbling around in the very definition of amateur league. Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington&#8217;s Saints finish the National Basketball League regular season with an unbeaten record at home, sitting at the top of the table with 14 wins over 4 losses. Media coverage: small story inside back page of newspaper, no art. Meanwhile, the Auckland Stars get kicked out of the playoffs because they didn&#8217;t pay their league &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NZ Basketball Shambles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-dp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}