{"id":4300,"date":"2012-05-24T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2012-05-24T04:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T08:40:31","slug":"motorcycle-polo-the-future-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/motorcycle-polo-the-future-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Polo: The Future Of Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_0449_MotorcycleP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Kron reported on a rising craze in Rwanda: Motorcycle Polo. Details of the sport include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s like standard polo except you&#8217;re on motorbikes rather than horses.<\/li>\n<li>One person drives the motorcycle and is considered the real star, while the other sits in the back with a mallet and scores the goal.<\/li>\n<li>There are five player teams and 15 minute quarters that are broken up by beer breaks.<\/li>\n<li>The game has spread to Uganda.<\/li>\n<li>Drivers are paid $20 for an hour long game, and all damage sustained by motorcycles is paid for by organizers of the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about some of the rules of the game, how and when it originated, the rivalry between North and South United States, and a version of the game that was played in 1912 but was lost to history click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/09\/sports\/motorized-polo-gains-a-foothold-in-east-africa.html?_r=2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/09\/sports\/motorized-polo-gains-a-foothold-in-east-africa.html?_r=2\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2012\/05\/09\/your-neocolonial-moment-for-the-day\">Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Kron reported on a rising craze in Rwanda: Motorcycle Polo. Details of the sport include: It&#8217;s like standard polo except you&#8217;re on motorbikes rather than horses. One person drives the motorcycle and is considered the real star, while the other sits in the back with a mallet and scores the goal. There are five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_0449_MotorcycleP1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}