{"id":1043,"date":"2010-06-25T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-06-25T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:18:20","slug":"is-kickball-an-olympic-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Is kickball an Olympic sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <em>Rocky Mountain High<\/em> \u00a0 continues&#8230; \u00a0 We traveled north to Lafayette, Colorado. \u00a0 There I met with Paul Spotts who is president of <a title=\"catholic sports\" href=\"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/www.catholicyoungadultsports.com\">Catholic Young Adult Sports<\/a>. \u00a0 In the Diocese of Denver, the organization is putting together a series of leagues (kickball, softball, flag football&#8230;) to get youth who, say, might not be talented enough for high school sports, involved with organized sports nevertheless. \u00a0 Spotts told me the main priority is building community among the youth, while providing an &#8220;entry way to Catholicism&#8221; for some. \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s soft sell evangilazation,&#8221; he added&#8230; \u00a0 At the Lafayette McDonald&#8217;s, I stumped with some of the patrons. \u00a0 One man was Jeramy Hughes, who is a &#8220;senior scientist&#8221; with <a title=\"science\" href=\"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/www.coldquanta.com\">Cold Quanta <\/a>in nearby Boulder, Colorado. \u00a0 He told me they expriment with lasers on atoms. \u00a0 I asked him what particular application(s). \u00a0 He said because the science is so new, they are still trying to figure all that out. \u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re a solution looking for a problem,&#8221; he smiled&#8230; I then went to the Lafayette Library where I put up a campaign flyer on the Community Bulletin Board there. \u00a0 This library&#8217;s entire roof is an array of solar panels and there is an intermediate sized wind turbine out front as well. \u00a0 Lafayette sits about 5,500 feet above sea level and gets a significant amount of wind. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting in Lafayette, Colorado: \u00a0 <em><strong>Sea level is for Sissies! \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Rocky Mountain High \u00a0 continues&#8230; \u00a0 We traveled north to Lafayette, Colorado. \u00a0 There I met with Paul Spotts who is president of Catholic Young Adult Sports. \u00a0 In the Diocese of Denver, the organization is putting together a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1043\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}