{"id":120617,"date":"2026-06-15T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/15\/with-a-few-tweaks-the-countrys-favorite-sports-went-from-pastimes-to-part-of-the-fabric-of-our-culture-smithsonian-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:06:46","slug":"with-a-few-tweaks-the-countrys-favorite-sports-went-from-pastimes-to-part-of-the-fabric-of-our-culture-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/15\/with-a-few-tweaks-the-countrys-favorite-sports-went-from-pastimes-to-part-of-the-fabric-of-our-culture-smithsonian-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Few Tweaks, the Country\u2019s Favorite Sports Went From Pastimes to Part of the Fabric of Our Culture &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixgFBVV95cUxNeXgtZWczRzJ2UU56NmJscjUyYnp0aWZTWjhDY0FRSzhUZ1BnT3VtajQ1eXZoQlhYMk5sdDNWTW5DUjJXZjAzTGExNENCaEIzSVdJckh1dnlSUUlPTEllUVJlUUlzMG1lZGlxdmpja0tqcXhuRkJ2WUp2TGhNWk1lb0gyd0dad2tuYXZhYzQxQ0JHSVZBcWtGZ05WamVCRjRGQXNkZGpHdXcyUnVtQWV5SlVKc1N2ZWNOdUZnLVZpSWxvRl9MeXc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">With a Few Tweaks, the Country\u2019s Favorite Sports Went From Pastimes to Part of the Fabric of Our Culture<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a Few Tweaks, the Country\u2019s Favorite Sports Went From Pastimes to Part of the Fabric of Our Culture&nbsp;&nbsp;Smithsonian Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}