{"id":995,"date":"2005-02-01T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2005-02-01T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T00:00:22","slug":"k12_sports_frid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"K-12 Sports: Friday Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/booksense-stores.booksense.com\/images\/books\/42\/37\/FC0306813742.JPG\"><br \/>\nI just finished reading Bissinger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp;jsessionid=1279ED9B14B2A2ECB58DE7201325FA6F.t8?s=showproduct&#038;isbn=0306813742\" TITLE=\"Tattered Cover Link\">Friday Night Lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The bestselling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, explores how the town&#8217;s passion for the team inspires&#8211;and sometimes shatters&#8211;the young men who wear the Panther uniform. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having lived in Texas some years ago, Bissinger presents a very accurate picture of Texas High School Football.  Read David Bernhardt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolinfosystem.org\/archives\/001190.php\">thoughts<\/a> on K-12 sports for another perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Bissinger&#8217;s Friday Night Lights. The bestselling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, explores how the town&#8217;s passion for the team inspires&#8211;and sometimes shatters&#8211;the young men who wear the Panther uniform. Having lived in Texas some years ago, Bissinger presents a very accurate picture of Texas High School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}