{"id":74,"date":"2016-10-29T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-03-02T05:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:44:33","slug":"alpha-launch-of-our-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/alpha-launch-of-our-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Launch of Our Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to <strong>IceHockeyLeagues.com<\/strong>. We are in Alpha state as there are some exciting new statistics we will eventually incorporate into the site as resources become available.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this site is to appreciate the story of hockey by writing about its historical roots and track how it has grown into a billion dollar business empire and worldwide sport.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey started as a recreational activity that existed only during the winter months in Canada. Now it is world-wide sport where for the first time in the history of the <strong>National Hockey League<\/strong>, the number of Canadians has dropped below 50.0% of all active players. Some will be saddened by this. I see it as an exciting new chapter in the evolution of Hockey as a sport and cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>So welcome to the site. If you wish to participate in the site through comments or to become a guest writer, you can register for an account.<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to IceHockeyLeagues.com. We are in Alpha state as there are some exciting new statistics we will eventually incorporate into the site as resources become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icehockeyleagues.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}