{"id":1088,"date":"2013-06-28T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2013-06-28T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:26:44","slug":"whoever-knew-there-were-so-many-guys-named-gus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/whoever-knew-there-were-so-many-guys-named-gus\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Knew There Were so Many Guys Named Gus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For much of the past five years or so Thursday nights have been bowling night for me.<\/p>\n

I have tried other sports through the years and despite the lasting sting of being cut from my high school bowling team as a freshmen bowling seems to be the one that stuck and was also the one I went back to after each of my stints attempting other sports.<\/p>\n

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The epic struggle of man and woman versus pins takes place daily at bowling alleys across the world.
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My first foray into team sports was a couple of seasons on the Gaithersburg, MD Recreation League soccer circuit. I enjoyed the strategy of the game and the cat and mouse dynamic between the goalie and the strikers trying to score.<\/p>\n

Okay, to be honest I was like 4 or 5 when I played soccer and I basically just remember the half time orange wedges.<\/p>\n

I also remember that in two years of playing the only time my team scored a victory was on Father<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For much of the past five years or so Thursday nights have been bowling night for me. I have tried other sports through the years and despite the lasting sting of being cut from my high school bowling team as a freshmen bowling seems to be the one that stuck and was also the one … Continue reading Whoever Knew There Were so Many Guys Named Gus?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}