{"id":886,"date":"2016-01-28T23:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=886"},"modified":"2016-01-28T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:51:57","slug":"video-michael-johnson-on-early-childhood-specialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Video: Michael Johnson on early childhood specialisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it better for children to focus on one sport or a range of sports? In this video Michael Johnson hears experts\u2019 and athletes\u2019 views on childhood specialisation.<\/p>\n<p>Early specialisation is covered in our new module <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=871\"title=\"New module: Exploring contemporary issues in sport and exercise\"  target=\"_blank\" >E314<\/a> starting in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-886-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"500\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_EarlySpecialisation_TX_121115-PAL.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_EarlySpecialisation_TX_121115-PAL.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_EarlySpecialisation_TX_121115-PAL.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Note: This video is also available\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/health-sports-psychology\/health\/sport-and-fitness\/sport\/chasing-perfection-how-do-athletes-become-champions\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenLearn Chasing Perfection video collection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it better for children to focus on one sport or a range of sports? In this video Michael Johnson hears experts\u2019 and athletes\u2019 views on childhood specialisation. Early specialisation is covered in our new module E314 starting in October 2016. &nbsp; Note: This video is also available\u00a0in the\u00a0OpenLearn Chasing Perfection video collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chasing-perfection","category-e314","category-early-specialisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}