{"id":4614,"date":"2014-02-17T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:44:50","slug":"thing-a-day-17-sportsball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/thing-a-day-17-sportsball\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that&#8217;s a basketball.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/XDBG.jpeg\" width=\"345\" height=\"500\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am impressed by the athleticism of these women, and I assume they must be dancers of some kind, who would be accustomed to some pretty fancy footwork in heels. I couldn&#8217;t find source information about this photo, and if you have some, I&#8217;d love to know more about it.<\/p>\n<p>Women in the 1930s did wear different shoes for that game (and probably headgear, if any), when they meant business, though.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cbcteam.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><br \/>\n<i>From the collection at <a href=\"http:\/\/picsofthen.com\/2011\/07\/30\/1930-31-college-womens-basketball-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pics of Then<\/a>, an individual&#8217;s collection of old photos.<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that&#8217;s a basketball. I am impressed by the athleticism of these women, and I assume they must be dancers of some kind, who would be accustomed to some pretty fancy footwork in heels. I couldn&#8217;t find source information about this photo, and if you have some, I&#8217;d love to know more about it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"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":[11,13,19],"tags":[24,116,865,1086,1315],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-pictures","category-thing-a-day","tag-1930s","tag-basketball","tag-old-photos","tag-shoes","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-1cq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}