{"id":1340363,"date":"2023-11-19T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=641b533f741aa38f3add4c713f5a9c60"},"modified":"2023-11-19T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:39:31","slug":"a-pick-up-soccer-group-is-helping-welcome-refugees-to-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/19\/a-pick-up-soccer-group-is-helping-welcome-refugees-to-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pick-Up Soccer Group Is Helping Welcome Refugees to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday night, members of Woodbine Soccer, a collective of soccer players, haul a generator, lights and goals to a local public park in Ridgewood, Queens. About 50 regulars of varying skill levels and backgrounds trickle in and we set up the field together for a few hours&rsquo; worth of scrimmaging. Among them are friends we&rsquo;ve made from Ecuador, Italy, the U.K. and Honduras &mdash; to name a few...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/a-pick-up-soccer-group-is-helping-welcome-refugees-to-new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/a-pick-up-soccer-group-is-helping-welcome-refugees-to-new-york-city\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly pickup game in a public park in Queens has become a powerful hub for organizing solidarity with asylum seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1383,38557,4931,4711,238,44233],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340364,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340363\/revisions\/1340364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}