{"id":5544,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-birth-of-volleyball\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:54","slug":"the-birth-of-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-birth-of-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, William Morgan faced a dilemma.  A physical director at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he had a class of older businessmen who needed exercise.  Tennis and basketball were not quite right for them.  After some thought, he divided his men into two teams, separated them with a tennis net raised to the top of two six-toot poles, inflated the lining of a basketball, and the sports world met volleyball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, William Morgan faced a dilemma. A physical director at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he had a class of older businessmen who needed exercise. Tennis and basketball were not quite right for them. After some thought, he divided his men into two teams, separated them with a tennis net raised to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,2407,703,2883,2882],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}