{"id":443,"date":"2012-06-18T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=443"},"modified":"2012-06-18T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:22:45","slug":"fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2012\/06\/18\/fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers’ Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is fathers’ day 2012. I spent the day at the lake with my kids and grandkids. My youngest daughter gave me and the other fathers in our family a special gift – a basketball hoop. She was the best athlete in the family and I used to shoot with her on the small court we built in our backyard.<\/p>\n

I stopped playing in 1997. Mostly because I gained too much weight after the flood and the game was starting to be hard on my joints. I am 63 now. Sixty year olds don’t play ball.<\/p>\n

Still, it was fun to shoot in the driveway. I still like the way a jump shot feels leaving my hand. Not much elevation now. I guess there was not much elevation then either. Still feels good though – nothing but net.<\/p>\n

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