{"id":11541,"date":"2015-05-08T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:02","slug":"growing-the-grassroots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/05\/growing-the-grassroots\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing the Grassroots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The past few posts have outlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/tag\/grassroots\/\">ideas about fostering a broader grassroots to engage the public<\/a> &#8230; I&#8217;m working on a dedicated site, and will share any developments&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of any sport&#8217;s best tools for crafting a public connection and igniting interest is to have a national competitive structure that makes sense and is both inclusive and encourages top standards. It is an advantage for students to have goals and excitement to anticipate. <\/p>\n<p>A standard sporting city\/state\/regional\/national elimination structure could allow local initiative to thrive and foster community through established annual events.<\/p>\n<p>A grassroots League could offer a simple, single-round Qualifier that conforms to the level the rider has entered &#8230; clear rounds scored in a Qualifier automatically earns the horse\/rider participants entry to the city\/area season-end championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few posts have outlined ideas about fostering a broader grassroots to engage the public &#8230; I&#8217;m working on a dedicated site, and will share any developments&#8230; One of any sport&#8217;s best tools for crafting a public connection and igniting interest is to have a national competitive structure that makes sense and is both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2015\/05\/growing-the-grassroots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing the Grassroots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154],"tags":[380,55,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}