{"id":6652,"date":"2015-12-09T04:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2015-12-09T04:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:17:28","slug":"on-turf-u-s-women-dig-in-their-cleats-at-last-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/on-turf-u-s-women-dig-in-their-cleats-at-last-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"On Turf, U.S. Women Dig in Their Cleats at Last &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have become so accustomed to playing on whatever surface is put in front of us,\u201d the team wrote in an open letter posted Monday on The Players\u2019 Tribune. \u201cBut we need to realize that our protection \u2014 our safety \u2014 is priority No. 1.\u201dGood for them. With their stock and their visibility as high as it has ever been, the players realized that there has never been a better time to find their voices.So goalkeeper Hope Solo shared a photo with her one million Twitter followers and forward Alex Morgan, who battled a leg injury for much of the past year, grumbled publicly about the \u201chorrible\u201d conditions. Morgan even told Fox Sports that she now encourages her teammates to speak their minds and ask \u201cwhether we should be playing on it if the men wouldn\u2019t be playing on it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/09\/sports\/soccer\/on-turf-us-women-dig-in-their-heels-at-last.html\">On Turf, U.S. Women Dig in Their Cleats at Last &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have become so accustomed to playing on whatever surface is put in front of us,\u201d the team wrote in an open letter posted Monday on The Players\u2019 Tribune. \u201cBut we need to realize that our protection \u2014 our safety \u2014 is priority No. 1.\u201dGood for them. With their stock and their visibility as high &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/on-turf-u-s-women-dig-in-their-cleats-at-last-the-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Turf, U.S. Women Dig in Their Cleats at Last &#8211; The New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}