{"id":16813,"date":"2017-06-04T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2017-06-04T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:59:03","slug":"sports-and-the-millennial-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16813","title":{"rendered":"Sports and the \u201cMillennial Problem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As they continue to move away from traditional sports viewing, a growing number of Millennials are instead flocking to alternatives such as eSports, including live video-gaming competitions such as The International, an annual tournament devoted to DOTA 2. Though such events aren\u2019t organized in the traditional sense, the growing popularity of eSports nonetheless has the potential to further diminish Millennials\u2019 loyalty to traditional sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/1912_Sports_Survey_Part_1a.pdf\">L.E.K. Sports Survey \u2014 Digital Engagement Part One: Sports and the \u201cMillennial Problem\u201d &#8211; 1912_Sports_Survey_Part_1a.pdf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they continue to move away from traditional sports viewing, a growing number of Millennials are instead flocking to alternatives such as eSports, including live video-gaming competitions such as The International, an annual tournament devoted to DOTA 2. Though such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[1412,661,525,734],"class_list":["post-16813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-esports","tag-gaming","tag-market-trends","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16814,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions\/16814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}