{"id":627,"date":"2011-11-12T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-11-12T01:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T01:02:23","slug":"real-life-quidditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Real life Quidditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, apparently there really is a real life Quidditch World Cup these days. It is run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalquidditch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Quidditch Association<\/a> (which is American, if you hadn&#8217;t guessed) and, among the hundreds of teams in the league, there is one from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for sport being a unifying activity, but I&#8217;m still a bit surprised that Iranians are interested enough to get involved. Nonetheless, there they are. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there is no actual flying; instead the players run around with a broom between their legs. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=ZdD5MHafxFo\" target=\"_blank\">a promotional video for the 2011 World Cup here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, apparently there really is a real life Quidditch World Cup these days. It is run by the International Quidditch Association (which is American, if you hadn&#8217;t guessed) and, among the hundreds of teams in the league, there is one from Iran. I&#8217;m all for sport being a unifying activity, but I&#8217;m still a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real life Quidditch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}