{"id":772,"date":"2009-10-08T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-10-08T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:05:52","slug":"i-wanna-start-a-kickball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/10\/08\/i-wanna-start-a-kickball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanna start a kickball team."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcsports.msnbc.com\/id\/33071922\/ns\/sports-other_sports\/\">World Adult Kickball Association national tournament<\/a> I&#8217;ve had a mission in mind.  I want to start or join a WAKA kickball team around here.  I&#8217;ve gotta do it.  It&#8217;s stuck in my brain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s so competitive that the officials are required to pass a written test, and must receive recommendations. It&#8217;s so competitive that, to make the game harder for pitchers, they must make the ball bounce at least twice before it reaches the plate. It&#8217;s so competitive that some players even delay their drinking until after playing the nine games in one day that could make them champions.<\/p>\n<p>And, for these guys and girls, that self-control is quite an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the Founders Day Weekend ends with what WAKA touts at the World&#8217;s Largest Flip Cup tournament, which essentially involves swigging as fast as you can.<\/p>\n<p>And, after all, these are some of the other team names:<\/p>\n<p>Party Foul. Happy Hour. And yes, Menace to Sobriety. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read about the World Adult Kickball Association national tournament I&#8217;ve had a mission in mind. I want to start or join a WAKA kickball team around here. I&#8217;ve gotta do it. It&#8217;s stuck in my brain. It&#8217;s so competitive that the officials are required to pass a written test, and must receive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/10\/08\/i-wanna-start-a-kickball-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wanna start a kickball team.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}