{"id":47,"date":"2020-03-19T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2020-03-19T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:14:02","slug":"premier-league-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/2020\/03\/19\/premier-league-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of today, the Premier League is postponed until April 30. This is the newest update that we have received since the league was postponed at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Premier League, like may leagues, are trying to figure out the best way to carry out the final third of the season. As a result, they are all hoping for the best and will resume play in May. There have been a few ideas of finishing the season where it is, first place gets first place and the bottom three get relegated. There are a lot of ethical decisions involved in this situation that needs to be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the key issues at hand is the payment of matchday employees. This is tragic as there are no games which means no pay for a large number of employees within clubs. One of the greatest things to come out of this situation is the fact that clubs, players, and owners have all donated to most of the club&#8217;s matchday employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a tough time for everyone, the sports world or not, and it is fantastic to see everyone come together in order to come out stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, the Premier League is postponed until April 30. This is the newest update that we have received since the league was postponed at the beginning of March. The Premier League, like may leagues, are trying to figure out the best way to carry out the final third of the season. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1205940],"tags":[1200175,1200998],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matchweeks","tag-coronavirus","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/plrblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}