{"id":79527,"date":"2021-09-03T19:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=79527"},"modified":"2021-09-03T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:07:37","slug":"which-of-the-following-nation-is-considered-founder-of-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-nation-is-considered-founder-of-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following nation is considered founder of basketball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. England<br \/>\nB. Nigeria<br \/>\nC. Kenya<br \/>\n<strong>D. America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The history of basketball began with its invention in 1891 in\u00a0<b>Springfield, Massachusetts<\/b>\u00a0by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. England B. Nigeria C. Kenya D. America Explanation: The history of basketball began with its invention in 1891 in\u00a0Springfield, Massachusetts\u00a0by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,589],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","8":"category-sports-mcqs-quiz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}