{"id":3452,"date":"2012-03-07T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:22:20","slug":"time-for-jim-to-have-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2012\/03\/07\/time-for-jim-to-have-a-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Time for *Jim* to have a turn!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157629502377163\/show\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GGrand.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GGrand\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3489\" \/><\/a>My folks &#038; the guys had a literal ball&#8211;or three&#8211;playing together in the back yard. After scoring a few big bouncy balls at Walgreens, my mom regaled the boys with tales of her illustrious basketball career, and the boys showed off their antics with the &#8220;Long Arm&#8221; (basically walking together while holding a stick, ending with a pratfall from Finn). We were charmed that the big guy picked up on my parents having actual names besides &#8220;Grandma\/Grandpa,&#8221; and he started cheekily prefacing every toss to Grandpa by saying, &#8220;Time for <em>Jim<\/em> to have a turn!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157629502377163\/show\/\">little gallery<\/a> of photos, plus a short clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"529\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8YCkIGp18o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My folks &#038; the guys had a literal ball&#8211;or three&#8211;playing together in the back yard. After scoring a few big bouncy balls at Walgreens, my mom regaled the boys with tales of her illustrious basketball career, and the boys showed off their antics with the &#8220;Long Arm&#8221; (basically walking together while holding a stick, ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}