{"id":451,"date":"2007-09-25T07:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/beach-balls-in-stadiums-an-odd-ritual"},"modified":"2007-09-25T07:36:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:36:58","slug":"beach-balls-in-stadiums-an-odd-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Beach Balls in Stadiums, An odd ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/1412977657\/UCLA.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UCLA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1420\/1412977657_6cf333ba7a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">We were at the UCLA Football game and it was a bright sunny day so some people were knocking beach balls around.  It is always an interesting exercise to watch and I asked an innocent question: &#8220;Who is it that plans &#8220;Oh we&#8217;re going to a football game lets stop at the 99 cent store and buy some beach balls.&#8221;?&#8221;  This led to the next question: &#8220;How do they get them into the stadium?&#8221;  To which I innocently answered, &#8220;They probably stuff them in their underwear.&#8221; It put the idea of hitting a beach ball in a whole new light.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/1413857644\/UCLA.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UCLA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1152\/1413857644_c87bf72ca4_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">So next time a beach ball come in range think to yourself: &#8220;How long ago was this ball hiding in some mans crotch?&#8221; And then let someone else hit it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were at the UCLA Football game and it was a bright sunny day so some people were knocking beach balls around. It is always an interesting exercise to watch and I asked an innocent question: &#8220;Who is it that plans &#8220;Oh we&#8217;re going to a football game lets stop at the 99 cent store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-7h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}