{"id":6133,"date":"2012-09-26T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2012-09-26T00:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T04:36:34","slug":"the-development-of-football-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-development-of-football-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"The Development Of Football Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092612_0322_TheDevelopm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In honour of (American) football season, Jimmy Stamp went over some of the history behind, and the dynamics of, the football field:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American football owes its origins to rugby and soccer. This is evident in the field that the game is played on \u2013 a grassy green rectangle.<\/li>\n<li>Football doesn&#8217;t require a flat surface, because the ball doesn&#8217;t have to roll. Instead the field&#8217;s purpose is to mark territory and show which team has more of it.<\/li>\n<li>When indoor stadiums became popular natural grass became too expensive to maintain. Artificial grass popularly known as &#8220;Astroturf&#8221; was developed.<\/li>\n<li>The rubber base of modern artificial grass provides cushioning that helps protect the athletes as they tumble around on the field.<\/li>\n<li>While this artificial grass could, in theory, be painted any colour, the rules mandate that the grass be green. This is to prevent sponsors from taking over the field itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about developments in goal posts and other changes in the game over <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/design\/2012\/09\/how-the-football-field-was-designed-from-hash-marks-to-goal-posts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/design\/2012\/09\/how-the-football-field-was-designed-from-hash-marks-to-goal-posts\/\">Smithsonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of (American) football season, Jimmy Stamp went over some of the history behind, and the dynamics of, the football field: American football owes its origins to rugby and soccer. This is evident in the field that the game is played on \u2013 a grassy green rectangle. Football doesn&#8217;t require a flat surface, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","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\/09\/092612_0322_TheDevelopm1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}