{"id":4896,"date":"2018-01-05T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2018-01-05T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:38:17","slug":"life-in-these-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/life-in-these-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in These United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story passed on\u00a0 from an excavator over coffee next to the backhoe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two guys I know were planning some easy pickings for thefts at a show coming up at the convention center in Portland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I nodded and took another hit of the hot black Dunkin Donuts nectar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An older family member told them it might be a bad idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am always glad to hear responsible adults still exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turns out it is the annual gun and knife show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4896\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4896\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story passed on\u00a0 from an excavator over coffee next to the backhoe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two guys I know were planning some easy pickings for thefts at a show coming up at the convention center in Portland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I nodded and took another hit of the hot black Dunkin Donuts nectar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An older family member told them it might be a bad idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am always glad to hear responsible adults still exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turns out it is the annual gun and knife show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4896\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4896\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}