{"id":40642,"date":"2016-04-12T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40642"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:26:48","slug":"wright-state-university-to-explore-baseball-jazz-in-sultans-of-swing-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/12\/wright-state-university-to-explore-baseball-jazz-in-sultans-of-swing-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State University to explore baseball, jazz in Sultans of Swing conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear the word swing, do you think of baseball or jazz? This week Wright State University will host the first national conference to explore the connections: \u201cThe Sultans of Swing: 100 Years of Baseball, Jazz and Short Fiction.\u201d In the early 20th century, African Americans took great pride in baseball\u2019s Negro Leagues and famous jazz musicians, but they still lived with segregation.<\/p>\n<p>David Seitz traces this history in our latest Culture Couch story on WYSO Public Radio. <a href=\"http:\/\/wyso.org\/post\/wright-state-university-explore-baseball-jazz-sultans-swing-conference#stream\/0\">Listen to the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear the word swing, do you think of baseball or jazz? This week Wright State University will host the first national conference to explore the connections: \u201cThe Sultans of Swing: 100 Years of Baseball, Jazz and Short Fiction.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/12\/wright-state-university-to-explore-baseball-jazz-in-sultans-of-swing-conference\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":40643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,747,715,4855,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40644,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40642\/revisions\/40644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}