{"id":4388,"date":"2012-10-07T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2012-10-07T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:20:00","slug":"sports-young-athletes-forced-to-choose-between-club-and-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/sports-young-athletes-forced-to-choose-between-club-and-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports: Young Athletes Forced to Choose Between Club and High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see this dilemma constantly in youth sports. Young athletes who aspire to be the best by playing on a club team, but also want to enjoy the competition of high school sports, must often choose one or the other. Is it fair? Is it necessary?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/06\/sports\/soccer\/club-soccer-pulls-at-players-ties-to-hometown-teams.html?pagewanted=all\">great article<\/a> that describes the conundrum that many young athletes face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see this dilemma constantly in youth sports. Young athletes who aspire to be the best by playing on a club team, but also want to enjoy the competition of high school sports, must often choose one or the other. Is it fair? Is it necessary? Here&#8217;s a great article that describes the conundrum that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517],"tags":[58,138,139,140],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-competition","tag-high-school-sports","tag-young-athletes","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}