{"id":297,"date":"2011-07-29T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldnoseconsulting.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-07-29T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:56:01","slug":"ten-reasons-why-people-miss-ballgames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/2011\/07\/ten-reasons-why-people-miss-ballgames\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons Why People Miss Ballgames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from the Friday Church News Notes, July 29, 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayoflife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wayoflife.org<\/a> <a href=\"mailto:fbns@wayoflife.org\" target=\"_blank\">fbns@wayoflife.org<\/a>, <a href=\"tel:866-295-4143\" target=\"_blank\">866-295-4143<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 I was taken to too many games by my parents when I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0I suspect that I was sitting next to some hypocrites because instead of paying attention to the game, they came to see their friends and talked the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0It seems the games are always scheduled when I want to do other things, like go to church.<\/p>\n<p>7. The band played numbers I\u2019d never heard before and not the good ol&#8217; fight songs.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0I went to a lot of games but the coach never bothered to thank me.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0The referees made decisions I couldn\u2019t agree with.<\/p>\n<p>4. Often the game goes into overtime or extra innings and I would be late getting home.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0The seats were too hard and uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0The people I sat next to didn\u2019t seem friendly.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0Every time I went, they asked for money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the Friday Church News Notes, July 29, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) 10.\u00a0 I was taken to too many games by my parents when I was a kid. 9.\u00a0I suspect that I was sitting next to some hypocrites because instead of paying attention to the game, they came to see their friends and talked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[388,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}