{"id":106,"date":"2017-01-01T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2017-01-01T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:32:28","slug":"january-01-in-weird-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/january-01-in-weird-history\/","title":{"rendered":"January 01 in weird history."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Today in 1977 the U.S. Polo Association&#8217;s ban on left-handed play went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably asking yourself why this is.\u00a0 (Or maybe not)\u00a0 Granted,\u00a0 seems a little weird at first glance.\u00a0 Was the Polo Association suddenly really down on left-handed people?\u00a0 Was there a mass uprising of lefties screaming that they have the right to play polo?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer to these questions is: safety.\u00a0 Not having ever played polo before I didn&#8217;t realize that if you play left handed you exponentially increase the risk of injury to both your opponent and the animal you are riding.\u00a0 So, then the ban makes sense.\u00a0 To this day polo remains the only sport in which it is against the rules to play left handed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in 1977 the U.S. Polo Association&#8217;s ban on left-handed play went into effect. You&#8217;re probably asking yourself why this is.\u00a0 (Or maybe not)\u00a0 Granted,\u00a0 seems a little weird at first glance.\u00a0 Was the Polo Association suddenly really down on left-handed people?\u00a0 Was there a mass uprising of lefties screaming that they have the right <a class=\"read-more-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/january-01-in-weird-history\/\">[&#8230;] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86peW-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialnerdism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}