{"id":355331,"date":"2010-02-23T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f301603970c"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:36:16","slug":"roller-derby-league-launches-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355331","title":{"rendered":"Roller derby league launches in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8c442c0970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Linkingla\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8c442c0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8c442c0970b-500pi\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 204px; height: 61px;\" title=\"Linkingla\"><\/img><\/a>More than 100 women have begun to gather regularly in Long Beach to form a roller derby league.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports the fledgling league is one of many springing up across the country&#8211;and the women involved hope to improve enough to travel and play competitively. Apparently the once-defunct sport is gaining traction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;The new generation is an all-female grassroots effort with punk rock and feminist influences,&quot; writes Kelly Puente. &quot;Many leagues play up the entertainment by wearing sexy uniforms, like mini skirts and fishnet stockings. They adopt fierce-sounding aliases, like \u2018Militia Etheridge\u2019 or \u2018Sandra Day O&#8217;Clobber.\u2019&quot;<br \/><\/br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/ci_14449906\">Read the full story here<\/a>, along with the Press-Telegram&#8217;s explanation of the rules of the sport.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Here are some other interesting L.A. reads on the Web today:<strong><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Gourmet hot dogs in Pasadena<\/strong>: After frozen yogurt and food trucks, hot dogs might turn into the latest L.A. culinary craze, <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2010\/02\/22\/slaw_dogs_whos_got_the_big_10.php\">The LAist reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &quot;Ray Byrne of The Slaw Dogs in Pasadena has taken hot dogs to a whole new level&#8230; 25 custom toppings, for an additional 99-cents, give you choices like bacon, pastrami, roasted pasilla peppers, jalapeno, chili, kimchi, thai-slaw, a fried egg and a number of different cheeses.&quot; <br \/><\/br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/br><strong>High school gets creative fighting graffiti<\/strong>: Eagle Rock High School is giving its students free tickets to a school dance if they report a tagger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeastsiderla.com\/2010\/02\/lets-dance-and-stop-tagging.html\">The Eastsider writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> &quot;What do students get for submitting a tagging tip? Free tickets to school dances, reports the school paper, the Eagle&#8217;s Scream&#8230; So far three taggers have been turned in this semester.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Anthony Pesce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 women have begun to gather regularly in Long Beach to form a roller derby league.The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports the fledgling league is one of many springing up across the country&#8211;and the women involved hope to improve enough to travel and play competitively. Apparently the once-defunct sport is gaining traction: &quot;The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}