{"id":8,"date":"2012-06-22T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:59:27","slug":"korf-what","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Korfball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In case you haven\u2019t heard of it, korfball is a game that is often described somewhere between netball and basketball with the aim of putting as many goals as possible through the 3.5m high \u2018korf\u2019. Korfball is a fast-paced indoor team sport, with teams of 4 boys and 4 girls aiming to shoot a\u00a0korfball into what is an essentially a smaller, taller, more yellow basketball hoop.\u00a0The sport originated in the Netherlands but has now spread across Europe and to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A few rules:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can&#8217;t move with the ball.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boys can only mark boys, girls can only mark girls.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can&#8217;t shoot if you&#8217;re being defended by your opposite number, which means he or she is close enough to block the ball if you were to shoot.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sounds easy? Good! Come give it a try!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Interested?<\/strong> Check out our events in <a href=\"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/freshers-week-2017\/\">Freshers Week<\/a>\u00a0or our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EUKC.EUKC\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #002c62;\">Facebook Page<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or just come down to training and see for yourself!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/training-times\/\">Training Times<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard of it, korfball is a game that is often described somewhere between netball and basketball with the aim of putting as many goals as possible through the 3.5m high \u2018korf\u2019. Korfball is a fast-paced indoor team sport, with teams of 4 boys and 4 girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}