{"id":11064,"date":"2023-09-20T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/billie-jean-king-is-a-tennis-trailblazer-heres-what-shes-doing-for-hockey\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:20:47","slug":"billie-jean-king-is-a-tennis-trailblazer-heres-what-shes-doing-for-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/billie-jean-king-is-a-tennis-trailblazer-heres-what-shes-doing-for-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King is a tennis trailblazer. Here\u2019s what she\u2019s doing for hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/el_lvTvDqtk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The tennis icon and women&#8217;s rights advocate paid a visit to CBC Radio&#8217;s Here and Now to talk about why she got involved with the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League. The league, which was formed over the summer with six franchises, made history with its first-ever draft this week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tennis icon and women&#8217;s rights advocate paid a visit to CBC Radio&#8217;s Here and Now to talk about why she got involved with the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League. The league, which was formed over the summer with six franchises,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11218,11223,11224,11222,865,11219,11220,106,1691,298,11221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}