{"id":1512831,"date":"2021-12-01T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1512831"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:01:48","slug":"nfhs-opinion-more-than-anything-else-students-play-sports-to-have-fun-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1512831","title":{"rendered":"NFHS opinion: More than anything else, students play sports to have fun with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/nfhs-opinion-more-than-anything-else-students-play-sports-to-have-fun-with-friends\/20011063\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/volleyball\/2021\/11\/06\/19966928\/VB-Neuse-Charter-v-Union-Academy-102-DMID1-5t2l8cbke-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Volleyball: Neuse Charter vs. Union Academy (Nov. 6, 2021)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A recent study by the Aspen Institute confirmed previous surveys in the NFHS Case for High School Activities that the No. 1 reason students compete in sports in high school is to have fun, engage in exercise and spend meaningful time with their friends. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/nfhs-opinion-more-than-anything-else-students-play-sports-to-have-fun-with-friends\/20011063\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/nfhs-opinion-more-than-anything-else-students-play-sports-to-have-fun-with-friends\/20011063\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NFHS opinion: More than anything else, students play sports to have fun with friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the Aspen Institute confirmed previous surveys in the NFHS Case for High School Activities that the No. 1 reason students compete in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1512905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512869,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512831\/revisions\/1512869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}