{"id":42683,"date":"2003-09-02T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/09\/02\/the-world-adult-kickball-association\/"},"modified":"2003-09-02T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-02T15:39:00","slug":"the-world-adult-kickball-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20030902-00\/?p=42683","title":{"rendered":"The World Adult Kickball Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>          &#8220;People just want to come out and have fun,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;A lot of the sports leagues          out there, unless you&#8217;re die-hard, unless you&#8217;re so serious, people end up getting          left out,&#8221; he said.       <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2001543014_kickball18.html\">Not      so with kickball<\/a>. &#8220;People haven&#8217;t done it since grade school, so it&#8217;s not like      people have been out there&#8230; playing kickball every week for the last 15 years,&#8221;      Smith said. [Seattle Times, 18 August 2003] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>          Of course, something as goofy as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldkickball.com\/\">must          certainly have a web site<\/a>.       <\/p>\n<p>          My kickball story: My first day at a new school I ran the bases backwards.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People just want to come out and have fun,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;A lot of the sports leagues out there, unless you&#8217;re die-hard, unless you&#8217;re so serious, people end up getting left out,&#8221; he said. Not so with kickball. &#8220;People haven&#8217;t done it since grade school, so it&#8217;s not like people have been out there&#8230; playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-42683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&#8220;People just want to come out and have fun,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;A lot of the sports leagues out there, unless you&#8217;re die-hard, unless you&#8217;re so serious, people end up getting left out,&#8221; he said. Not so with kickball. &#8220;People haven&#8217;t done it since grade school, so it&#8217;s not like people have been out there&#8230; playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}