{"id":1418,"date":"2015-09-07T12:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2015-09-07T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:33:06","slug":"could-a-sports-hijab-boost-number-of-muslim-women-playing-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2015\/09\/07\/could-a-sports-hijab-boost-number-of-muslim-women-playing-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a sports hijab boost number of Muslim women playing sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Sports-Hijab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1419\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Sports-Hijab-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Sports Hijab\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Sports-Hijab-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Sports-Hijab.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Sport England&#8217;s latest participation figures suggest less than one in five Muslim females exercise at least once a week &#8211; lower than any other faith group.<\/p>\n<p>Could a sports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/islam\/beliefs\/hijab_1.shtml\">hijab<\/a> make a difference? A martial arts champion from east London thinks so &#8211; and the BBC Asian Network has found out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/get-inspired\/34142220\">more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport England&#8217;s latest participation figures suggest less than one in five Muslim females exercise at least once a week &#8211; lower than any other faith group. Could a sports hijab make a difference? A martial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality","category-religion","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}