{"id":15603,"date":"2012-05-10T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15603"},"modified":"2012-05-10T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:43:04","slug":"a-winner-never-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15603","title":{"rendered":"A Winner Never Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092221\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTc0NTQ0NzA2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTA3NjEyMQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg\" style=\"border:none\" align=right width=120><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/sports\/preps\/articles\/2012\/05\/09\/20120509school-balks-over-having-face-girl-state-title-game.html'>All second<\/a> baseman Paige Sultzbach wanted to do was play in her school's state championship baseball game tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But because she is a girl, that won't happen.<\/p>\n<p>Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy, which had been scheduled to play Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in tonight's Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship at Phoenix College.<\/p>\n<p>But Our Lady of Sorrows, a fundamentalist Catholic school in Phoenix that lost twice to Mesa Prep during the regular season, <b>chose to forfeit the championship game rather than play a team fielding a female player<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh religious fundamentalism, is there nothing you can't ruin? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All second baseman Paige Sultzbach wanted to do was play in her school's state championship baseball game tonight. But because she is a girl, that won't happen. Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy, which had been scheduled to play Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in tonight's Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}