{"id":22722,"date":"2020-10-19T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-mad-world-of-ivy-league-obsessed-parents-and-niche-sports#id28114"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:41:00","slug":"ive-league-obsessed-parents-regret-encouraging-their-kids-to-play-niche-sports-e-g-lacrosse-that-schools-dont-care-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/ive-league-obsessed-parents-regret-encouraging-their-kids-to-play-niche-sports-e-g-lacrosse-that-schools-dont-care-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Ive League-obsessed parents regret encouraging their kids to play niche sports\u2014e.g., lacrosse\u2014that schools don\u2019t care about."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard not to feel at least a jot of sympathy for these parents who earnestly believed they were doing right by their children, and especially for the young athletes&mdash;who, like Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s oysters, were brought out so far, and made to trot so quick&mdash;and who now must think that the world is conspiring against them.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2020\/11\/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions\/616474\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-mad-world-of-ivy-league-obsessed-parents-and-niche-sports\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        It&rsquo;s hard not to feel at least a jot of sympathy for these parents who earnestly believed they were doing right by their children, and especially for the young athletes&mdash;who, like Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s oysters,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22723,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions\/22723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}