{"id":7908,"date":"2023-02-02T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:55:31","slug":"bucs-whats-the-fuss-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/2023\/02\/02\/bucs-whats-the-fuss-about\/","title":{"rendered":"BUCS- what&#8217;s the fuss about?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BUCS: British universities and college sport<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">If you&#8217;re involved in BUCS you&#8217;ll know it takes over your every Wednesday. Train twice week. Lose. Drown your sorrows at the social. Repeat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes it worth it? The people you meet and the friends you make along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BUCS history<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1918, with the first athletics meet taking place only a year later. In 1922, new sports were introduced such as, football, hockey and swimming.  Until 2008, BUCS was not unified under one governing body. It consisted of the UCS (University and college sport) and the BUSA  (British University sport association) which became BUCS on the 31st of October 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BUCS Big Wednesday 2022 | Powered By New Balance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQiXlmCCw0g?start=12&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My sport- Netball<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susu.org\/groups\/logos\/229_1564587716.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCS: British universities and college sport If you&#8217;re involved in BUCS you&#8217;ll know it takes over your every Wednesday. Train twice week. Lose. Drown your sorrows at the social. Repeat. What makes it worth it? The people you meet and the friends you make along the way. BUCS history Founded in 1918, with the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}