Lydia had an appointment with the dentist yesterday morning to have her palate extender tightened. When I went to pick her up at school it was recess time and, wending my way through scores of unleashed kids, I saw something that made me wince and do my best to avert my eyes. And it wasn’t just once I saw it, either … I saw it over and over and over again, and it never got any easier to witness.<\/p>\n
These kids, they were kicking basketballs. KICKING, with their FEET. Basketballs. Basket<\/em>balls.<\/p>\n Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but all of the P.E. teachers I ever met growing up had one hard and fast rule in common: you never, nevernevernever, kick a basketball. Not ever. Basketballs are the delicate flowers of balldom, to be respected and handled with care. Handled<\/em> with care, not footled. Never footled.<\/p>\n Honestly, I had to grit my teeth and scurry away from that schoolyard with the quickness so as not to make myself ridiculous with an errant but well-intentioned sporting-goods-rescue mission. It’s been a hard lesson, but I’ve finally learned that you can’t save them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lydia had an appointment with the dentist yesterday morning to have her palate extender tightened. When I went to pick her up at school it was recess time and, wending my way through scores of unleashed kids, I saw something that made me wince and do my best to avert my eyes. And it wasn’t… Read More Offended sensibilities<\/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-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}