{"id":1674,"date":"2016-10-06T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funworld.mu\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2017-05-21T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T14:36:10","slug":"5-bowling-cool-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/2016\/10\/06\/5-bowling-cool-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Bowling cool facts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Egyptians played bowling 5,000 Years Ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A British anthropologist discovered evidence of that Egyptians played bowling 5,000 Years Ago.\u00a0Primitive bowling balls, pins and other materials\u00a0were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to 3200 BC.<\/p>\n

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2. Women were discouraged to play bowling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At\u00a0end of the 19th century, gender equality was certainly not a big thing:\u00a0it was considered socially unacceptable for women to play bowling.<\/p>\n

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3. Before, bowling balls were made of wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During the early 1900’s, bowling balls were actually made\u00a0of\u00a0dense hardwoods.<\/p>\n

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4. Bowling helps burning calories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Good news!\u00a0You now have a fun and easy way to exercise! In fact, bowling burns about 100 calories per hour, and bowling three games is equal to a mile (1.6Km) of walking.<\/p>\n

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5. The largest bowling center has 116 lanes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Inazawa Grand Bowl, located in Japan, is\u00a0recognised by Guinness World Records as being the largest bowling center in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Egyptians played bowling 5,000 Years Ago. A British anthropologist discovered evidence of that Egyptians played bowling 5,000 Years Ago.\u00a0Primitive bowling balls, pins and other materials\u00a0were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funworld.mu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}