{"id":35,"date":"2005-07-20T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-04-08T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:10:21","slug":"summer-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/2005\/07\/summer-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Summer is the best time of year!<\/p>\n

Our most favorite thing to do in the hot days of summer is to play stickball. Stickball, as the inner-city equivalent of baseball is played with what was available to us. A broomstick without the head and a blue racketball ball – stolen from the YMCA that one of the guys works in during the summer. <\/p>\n

The sewer manhole is our home plate. First and third base are the door handle of parked cars. Second base is a flattened Coke can that must be stepped on in order to be safe. Our playing field, not manicured in grass, is paved in asphalt – which is sweltering hot in the summer. The playing field is narrow, in our case two car lanes wide, but is long in order to get a good run. What passes as a foul ball is if the ball lands on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the parked cars. The only time-out that we ever called was when cars double park and blocked our playing field. <\/p>\n

I began my career when I finally got picked to be on the team. Up until that day I was the small kid who was never considered for the pick. I just hung around and was sent chasing that blue ball down, when it got away. I have moved up! Now I have gained a new life experience. I learned the joy of being picked early but also the humiliation of being the last guy picked. Either way I got to play ball – and boy do I enjoy the game.<\/p>\n

I am a member of a team. I now have a dream to excel at something I like. Maybe one day I may play baseball at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer is the best time of year! Our most favorite thing to do in the hot days of summer is to play stickball. Stickball, as the inner-city equivalent of baseball is played with what was available to us. A broomstick without the head and a blue racketball ball – stolen from the YMCA that one … Continue reading “Summer Fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}