{"id":3197,"date":"2010-06-20T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/?page_id=3197"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:03:41","slug":"thanks-kid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/sports-poems\/thanks-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Kid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Thanks kid, for being the reason,<br \/>\nI get to coach another season.<br \/>\nWho was more nervous that very first day?<br \/>\nYou just learning, or me who must teach you to play.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Out on the diamond I feel like a kid again,<br \/>\nYet after each practice and game, my age settles back in.<br \/>\nMy muscles would ache and bones feel sore,<br \/>\nA little ice and some ointment and I&#8217;m better than before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">A few moments each game I would steal far away,<br \/>\nBack to a time when I could still play.<br \/>\nThe boyhood memories came rushing back in,<br \/>\nJust like a good slider complete with the spin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">That ol&#8217; team was a rough and tumble bunch,<br \/>\nWe would play all day and never eat lunch.<br \/>\nWe would play anyone, anytime, anywhere,<br \/>\nBut no other team could give us a scare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">That old sandlot is still there today,<br \/>\nNow sadly the boys no longer come to play.<br \/>\nThe grass grows tall where home plate once stood,<br \/>\nA long forgotten landmark in the old neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&#8220;Coach, hey Coach&#8221; I hear from a place far, far away,<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you going to pitch to me sometime today?&#8221;<br \/>\nSuddenly, I am standing back on the mound,<br \/>\nSurrounded by my players just milling around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I am back to the game, with you at last,<br \/>\nMy boyhood memories tucked back in the past.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hey Coach, everything alright&#8221; I am asked with a grin,<br \/>\n&#8220;Just perfect kid. Hey, thanks again.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>Author:\u00a0 Unknown<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks kid, for being the reason, I get to coach another season. Who was more nervous that very first day? You just learning, or me who must teach you to play. Out on the diamond I feel like a kid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1013,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3197\/revisions\/6850"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}