{"id":724,"date":"2023-02-25T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-mayan-sport-making-a-comeback-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T08:23:53","slug":"the-ancient-mayan-sport-making-a-comeback-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-mayan-sport-making-a-comeback-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The ancient Mayan sport making a comeback \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8n-LpbT6as?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In Mexico, a group of athletes are on a mission to revive an ancient sporting tradition \u2013 a tribute to the game once enjoyed by their ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Thought to be approximately 3,000-years-old, the Mesoamerican ballgame &#8216;Juego de Pelota&#8217; could be one of the oldest team sports in the world. It was once played by the Aztecs, Maya and Incas and carries ancient cultural and religious significance.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when Spanish conquistadors banned the game in the 16th Century AD did the game fade into legend.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Souleyman Messalti<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews #mexico #history #sports<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d8n-LpbT6as\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mexico, a group of athletes are on a mission to revive an ancient sporting tradition \u2013 a tribute to the game once enjoyed by their ancestors. Thought to be approximately 3,000-years-old, the Mesoamerican ballgame &#8216;Juego de Pelota&#8217; could be one of the oldest team sports in the world. It was once played by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}