{"id":1365,"date":"2013-08-26T01:10:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T06:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2013-08-25T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T01:30:19","slug":"summers-out-for-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/summers-out-for-the-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s Out for the School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many students across the country today marks the end of summer vacation and the return to school.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us no longer in school, today means a return to having to pay attention to school zones along our daily commute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1370\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/School-BUs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1370\" alt=\"Across the country today the roads will be filled with school buses as most kids go back to school. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/School-BUs-300x135.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/School-BUs-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/School-BUs-1024x461.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Across the country today the roads will be filled with school buses as most kids go back to school.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aside from the impacts of school zones and roads clogged with big yellow buses, for many people the start of school means a return to high school football on Friday nights, or in some cases Thursday nights or Saturday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I covered high school football varsity games were only held on Friday nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many students across the country today marks the end of summer vacation and the return to school. For those of us no longer in school, today means a return to having to pay attention to school zones along our daily commute. Aside from the impacts of school zones and roads clogged with big yellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/summers-out-for-the-school-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer&#8217;s Out for the School Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[176,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}