{"id":4038,"date":"2011-01-11T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:11:45","slug":"why-soccer-balls-are-traditionally-checkered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/why-soccer-balls-are-traditionally-checkered\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soccer Balls Are Often Checkered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/soccer-ball-checkered.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4039\" title=\"soccer-ball-checkered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/soccer-ball-checkered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/soccer-ball-checkered.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/soccer-ball-checkered-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Origin of the Word Soccer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here to Learn the Origin of the Word Soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soccer balls were originally painted with the now classic black and white checkered look in order to make them more visible on black and white TV during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.\u00a0 Naturally, people wanted to buy balls that looked like those that the professionals used on TV and thus everybody bought the black and white checkered soccer ball instead of the previous traditional solid color ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here to Learn the Origin of the Word Soccer Text Version Soccer balls were originally painted with the now classic black and white checkered look in order to make them more visible on black and white TV during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.\u00a0 Naturally, people wanted to buy balls that looked like those that the professionals used on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1110,1111],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-soccer-ball-design","tag-soccer-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/6980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}