{"id":3155,"date":"2011-05-23T08:44:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2011\/05\/23\/amid-all-the-end-of-season-hoopla-this-story\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:52:46","slug":"amid-all-the-end-of-season-hoopla-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2011\/05\/23\/amid-all-the-end-of-season-hoopla-this-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid all the end-of-season hoopla, this story &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the end-of-season hoopla, this story stands out as &#8220;the spirit of football&#8221;. When their club mutated into a franchise and moved to another city, some of the fans decided enough was enough. So they started their own club &#8211; and have just gained promotion to the football league. Hats off to AFC Wimbledon!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_link\">\n<div class=\"fbfpi_image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/may\/23\/in-praise-of-afc-wimbledon\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; guardian.co.uk - In praise of\u2026 AFC Wimbledon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/05\/fbfpi_6e23695d6c8fff0dfaa36df0a37fdce1.gif\" title=\"&copy; guardian.co.uk - In praise of\u2026 AFC Wimbledon\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_text\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/may\/23\/in-praise-of-afc-wimbledon\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; guardian.co.uk - In praise of\u2026 AFC Wimbledon\">In praise of\u2026 AFC Wimbledon<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><small>guardian.co.uk<\/small><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the story of a small group of people who, despite all discouragement, did what was right and, nine years on, have triumphed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the end-of-season hoopla, this story stands out as &#8220;the spirit of football&#8221;. When their club mutated into a franchise and moved to another city, some of the fans decided enough was enough. So they started their own club &#8211; and have just gained promotion to the football league. Hats off to AFC Wimbledon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}