{"id":259,"date":"2022-10-03T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:12:47","slug":"passion-plays-an-interview-with-randal-balmer-on-religion-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/03\/passion-plays-an-interview-with-randal-balmer-on-religion-and-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"PASSION PLAYS: An interview with Randal Balmer on Religion and Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PASSION PLAYS: Interview with Author Randall Balmer\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=dfbdr-12dbafe-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mitch &#8220;Thunder&#8221; Nelles had a chance to chat with author Randall Balmer.<\/p>\n<p>Balmer&#8217;s newest book is &#8220;PASSION PLAYS: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thunder and Balmer talked about the Packers, the Red Sox, the origination of basketball, and hockey in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>And the opportunity for sports to transcend our divisions &#8211; religious, political, etc. &#8211; and get us all on the same page, like when Milwaukee celebrated the Bucks&#8217; championship in 2021!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch &#8220;Thunder&#8221; Nelles had a chance to chat with author Randall Balmer. Balmer&#8217;s newest book is &#8220;PASSION PLAYS: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America.&#8221; Thunder and Balmer talked about the Packers, the Red Sox, the origination of basketball, and hockey in Canada. And the opportunity for sports to transcend our divisions &#8211; religious, political,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thundermke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}