{"id":21,"date":"2006-12-02T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-12-02T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T12:42:41","slug":"basketball-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s December in Japan and for the next 3 months it&#8217;s basketball season!\u00c2\u00a0 Ben, our senior, is anchoring the team in the big man spot, but we have 2 others playing that spot equally well, so some good height this year.\u00c2\u00a0 We also have a lot of speed and we are using it.\u00c2\u00a0 Two Japanese high school club teams played so far.\u00c2\u00a0 We won 100 &#8211; 69 and tonight we won by 109-33 (playing a lower level team, though).\u00c2\u00a0 Real test is on Wednesday against Zama, one of the military base\u00c2\u00a0schools.\u00c2\u00a0 Pray for Ben and the guys &#8211; protection and safety; the first game one of Ben&#8217;s friends broke his nose in a knock up with the back of another players head!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s December in Japan and for the next 3 months it&#8217;s basketball season!\u00c2\u00a0 Ben, our senior, is anchoring the team in the big man spot, but we have 2 others playing that spot equally well, so some good height<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}