{"id":1437,"date":"2009-03-05T05:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2009-03-05T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:11:59","slug":"nyt-on-free-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2009\/03\/nyt-on-free-throws\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT on free throws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/04\/sports\/basketball\/04freethrow.html?_r=2&#038;em\">For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Basketball in the United States has changed in myriad ways over the decades, from flat-footed set shots to dunks, from crotch-hugging uniforms to baggy knee-length shorts, from the dominance of American players to the recent infusion of international stars.<br \/>\nBut one thing has remained remarkably constant: the rate at which players make free throws. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/04\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/04hoosiers.html?ref=basketball\">Bobby Plump and Milan<\/a> in the NYT in 2009. Pretty amazing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help Basketball in the United States has changed in myriad ways over the decades, from flat-footed set shots to dunks, from crotch-hugging uniforms to baggy knee-length shorts, from the dominance of American players to the recent infusion of international stars. But one thing has remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}