{"id":523,"date":"2012-02-27T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-03-02T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:57:13","slug":"historical-significance-of-march-madness-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/523\/historical-significance-of-march-madness-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Significance of March Madness Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"March Madness History\r\nEvents of basketball March madness are quite popular among basketball fans. The origin of this event is traced back in history and at that time the High School Association of the city of Illinois used to sponsor the then small events. High school boys\u2019 from different schools used to participate in the final tournament. However, started as a small association the event has succeeded to grow in large and gradually developed as a state wise institution that overwhelmed almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/523\/historical-significance-of-march-madness-basketball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness History Events of basketball March madness are quite popular among basketball fans. The origin of this event is traced back in history and at that time the High School Association of the city of Illinois used to sponsor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/523\/historical-significance-of-march-madness-basketball\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[16,267,220,266],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-madness","tag-basketball","tag-ihsa","tag-march-madness-2","tag-march-madness-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettingbasketball.org\/betting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}