{"id":1644459,"date":"2022-04-21T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1644459"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:40:29","slug":"opinion-leaders-in-sports-say-changes-in-attitudes-behavior-needed-to-address-officials-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1644459","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Leaders in sports say changes in attitudes, behavior needed to address officials shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/opinion-leaders-in-sports-say-changes-in-attitudes-behavior-needed-to-address-officials-shortage\/20245767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/baseball\/2022\/04\/16\/20239679\/BSB-Corinth-Holders-v-Cardinal-Gibbons-Apr-16-22-57-DMID1-5umjpttx9-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball: Corinth Holders vs. Cardinal Gibbons (Apr. 16, 2022)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The shortage of officials in high school sports has been well documented. As we noted in this column a couple of months ago, a survey of state high school associations indicated about 50,000 individuals have ended their days as high school officials since the 2018-19 school year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/opinion-leaders-in-sports-say-changes-in-attitudes-behavior-needed-to-address-officials-shortage\/20245767\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/opinion-leaders-in-sports-say-changes-in-attitudes-behavior-needed-to-address-officials-shortage\/20245767\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Opinion: Leaders in sports say changes in attitudes, behavior needed to address officials shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortage of officials in high school sports has been well documented. As we noted in this column a couple of months ago, a survey of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644459","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=1644459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}