{"id":76674,"date":"2015-07-10T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76674"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:33:58","slug":"midgets-nickname-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=76674","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Midgets&#8221; nickname, &#8220;offensive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Midgets-sports-teams1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-76790\" alt=\"Midgets sports teams1\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Midgets-sports-teams1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) &#8211; A national group that represents people with dwarfism wants an Illinois high school and a half-dozen other high schools nationwide that call their sports teams &#8220;midgets&#8221; to drop a nickname they say is offensive.<\/p>\n<p>The Little People of America has asked Freeburg High School in southern Illinois to phase out the nickname within two years and to stop selling &#8220;Midget&#8221; merchandise to people from outside the community 25 miles east of St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The group hopes to persuade other schools in Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Freeburg&#8217;s superintendent says the name is a source of civic pride and not meant to be derogatory. City lore traces the nickname to long-ago squads that beat much larger opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) &#8211; A national group that represents people with dwarfism wants an Illinois high school and a half-dozen other high schools nationwide that call their sports teams &#8220;midgets&#8221; to drop a nickname they say is offensive. The Little People of America has asked Freeburg High School in southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76680,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions\/76680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}