{"id":2649,"date":"2013-06-17T22:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2013-06-17T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:47:19","slug":"game-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"<b>Game day<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer Petra started playing soccer on a team organized by our local sports organization.  For the first year it was mostly just play, a chance for the girls to learn about the game and to get a feel for what to do on the field.  They played some scrimmages within the group, but it wasn&#8217;t until this spring that they started playing actual games.  They practice twice a week and play an official game most Sundays, alternating home and away games. It reminds me a lot of the little league baseball teams my brothers and I played on when we were kids, and I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s a large part of why I enjoy it.  I also must confess, albeit a little reluctantly, that the game itself is growing on me, especially when I see my girl out on the field.  <\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken at yesterday&#8217;s game, when she played goalie for the first half.  I love the concentration on her face.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/petra\/images\/petragoalie16june2013.jpg\" border=1 alt=\"Goalkeeper\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer Petra started playing soccer on a team organized by our local sports organization. For the first year it was mostly just play, a chance for the girls to learn about the game and to get a feel for what to do on the field. They played some scrimmages within the group, but it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=2649\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Game day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}