{"id":107,"date":"2008-04-21T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/bookmark-this-for-2014"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:28:46","slug":"bookmark-this-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/bookmark-this-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark this for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Turnbull has posted an interesting article on the birth of football in the US on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalgame.com\/blog\/?p=437\">The Global Game<\/a>. The article details the history of Paterson FC, which has a strong claim to being the first club to play football according to the 1863 rules which we honour with our kick-off game in Battersea Park. However, it also mentions Oneida FC of Boston, who were established earlier, but &#8220;played one of the football codes&#8211;perhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid&#8221;. Oneida FC are commemorated with a monument on Boston Common which I think we should visit as we head for Brazil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/199\/487607258_14a886fa1d.jpg\" style=\"width:333px;height:500px\" alt=\"photo by wallyg on Flickr\" \/><br \/>\nThe monument (photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wallyg\/487607258\/\">wallyg<\/a> on Flickr, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC license<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Turnbull has posted an interesting article on the birth of football in the US on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalgame.com\/blog\/?p=437\">The Global Game<\/a>. The article details the history of Paterson FC, which has a strong claim to being the first club to play football according to the 1863 rules which we honour with our kick-off game in Battersea Park. However, it also mentions Oneida FC of Boston, who were established earlier, but &#8220;played one of the football codes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid&#8221;. Oneida FC are commemorated with a monument on Boston Common which I think we should visit as we head for Brazil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/199\/487607258_14a886fa1d.jpg\" style=\"width:333px;height:500px\" alt=\"photo by wallyg on Flickr\" \/><br \/>\nThe monument (photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wallyg\/487607258\/\">wallyg<\/a> on Flickr, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC license<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ball"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}