{"id":149,"date":"2006-10-08T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-10-08T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:59:49","slug":"is-sport-falling-at-the-class-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Is sport falling at the class hurdle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess that I&#8217;ve never had much interest in sport &#8211; either playing it or watching it. But I am fascinated by class and how it determines so unfairly so many life chances. So I took notice of the establishment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetgames.org\/drupal-4.6.6\/index.php\">StreetGames<\/a> which is a new national charity set up to bring sport to the  doorstep of young people who are currently outside sport but  nonetheless keen to play, and to make sure the most disadvantaged  young people in the country share in the 2012 Olympic Legacy.<br \/>\nStreetGames is also committed to making British sport better. It highlights that participation rates in sport are profoundly skewed by social class. Roughly, the  top 20% of the population are twice as likely to participate in sport  as the bottom 20%. In a basket of sports (excluding football and  boxing) the top 20% of the population are four times as likely to make  it to elite level as the bottom 20%.<br \/>\nThis theme has been picked up today by Nick Cohen in <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1890349,00.html\">his &#8220;Observer column<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess that I&#8217;ve never had much interest in sport &#8211; either playing it or watching it. But I am fascinated by class and how it determines so unfairly so many life chances. So I took notice of the establishment of StreetGames which is a new national charity set up to bring sport to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}