{"id":1396,"date":"2014-04-08T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2014-04-09T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:39:56","slug":"what-does-football-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/what-does-football-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does “football” mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some approximated statistics about what the word “football” means to people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Meaning<\/th>\nPeople who hold it<\/th>\n<\/thead>\n
American Football*<\/td>\n350,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aussie Rules Football**<\/td>\n23,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gaelic Football***<\/td>\n5,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Association Football<\/td>\n6,625,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These numbers might not mean much to most people, so I’ve tried to visualise them below.<\/p>\n[visualizer id=”1409″] <\/p>\n[visualizer id=”1412″] <\/p>\n

*) This counts American Football and Canadian Football as one sport, even though they are technically different.
\n**) In Australia “football” might also refer to “Rugby League”, “Rugby Union” or “Association Football”, depending on context.
\n***) In Ireland “football” is also used for both Association Football and Rugby Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some approximated statistics about what the word “football” means to people around the world. Meaning People who hold it American Football* 350,000,000 Aussie Rules Football** 23,000,000 Gaelic Football*** 5,000,000 Association Football 6,625,000,000 These numbers might not mean much to most people, so I’ve tried to visualise them below. [visualizer id=”1409″] [visualizer id=”1412″] *) This counts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shotgundentist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}