{"id":91,"date":"2017-04-05T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:04:13","slug":"esports-scholarships-i-guess-thats-pretty-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"eSports scholarships? I guess that&#8217;s pretty cool."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-05\/video-gaming-becomes-a-scholarship-sport-at-university-of-utah\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/esports-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/esports-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/esports-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/esports-500x253.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/esports.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-05\/video-gaming-becomes-a-scholarship-sport-at-university-of-utah\">Bloomberg<\/a> is reporting that\u00a0The University of Utah will be the first school with a sports program in a major athletic conference to provide scholarships for aspiring professional gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be real&#8230; equating eSports to actual real world athletics is a gigantic stretch, but this is pretty cool nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg is reporting that\u00a0The University of Utah will be the first school with a sports program in a major athletic conference to provide scholarships for aspiring professional gamers. Let&#8217;s be real&#8230; equating eSports to actual real world athletics is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/?p=91\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-latest","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkongaction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}