{"id":2261,"date":"2016-03-12T17:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:05:17","slug":"in-focus-they-skate-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/03\/12\/in-focus-they-skate-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: They skate hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They use words like \u201cjammers\u201d and \u201cblockers.\u201d They don\u2019t just skate, they skate hard. <\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t witnessed roller derby, prepare yourself for a different kind of sport. <\/p>\n<p>Dating back to the 1930s, it consists of five members on each team, featuring a \u201cjammer\u201d that attempts to pass the opponents as many times as possible by sprinting around the track and lapping the pack.<\/p>\n<p>Steel City Roller Derby hosts its games at Romp N\u2019 Roll in Shaler. <\/p>\n<p>The league is celebrating its 10th season, with the Penn Bruisers taking on last year\u2019s champions, Allegheny Avengers, March 19 in the 2015-2016 Battle of the Burgh Championship game. <\/p>\n<p>For more information about the league and to buy tickets to the game, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelcityrollerderby.org\/\u200bhome\/\">www.steelcityrollerderby.org\/\u200bhome\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:500px;height:350px;\" data-ps-embed-type=\"slideshow\" data-ps-embed-gid=\"G0000wAc_wFSoBWI\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They use words like \u201cjammers\u201d and \u201cblockers.\u201d They don\u2019t just skate, they skate hard. If you haven\u2019t witnessed roller derby, prepare yourself for a different kind of sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,187,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[26],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/06\/SS_20160308mfderby04-3.jpg?fit=2600%2C1717&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}