{"id":1636,"date":"2017-06-06T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:31:57","slug":"a-world-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"a world of his own…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday our Jonathan and I got in a game of basketball at a cracked, outdoor court near some projects in downtown Steubenville. \u00a0It was actually a pretty intense game with some high school and young adult age guys. \u00a0[I’m, oh, a little<\/em> older.] \u00a0Anyway, one of the guys on our team had an excellent outside shot, was a pretty good playmaker, yet appeared to have some sort of emotional\/mental problem. \u00a0While he played well, he didn’t communicate at all, except to occasionally nod — all the time either looking away or keeping his head down. \u00a0When the game broke up, we all went our separate ways. \u00a0I said goodbye to him and he nodded. \u00a0As we were walking up the hill from the court, I looked back. \u00a0There he was by himself continuing to shoot in, seemingly, a world all his own. \u00a0The projects were just beyond the railroad tracks to the southeast. \u00a0I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of ‘world’ he’d be going back to. \u00a0Or for that matter, perhaps the world he was trying to escape for a few hours on the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday our Jonathan and I got in a game of basketball at a cracked, outdoor court near some projects in downtown Steubenville. \u00a0It was actually a pretty intense game with some high school and young adult age guys. \u00a0[I’m, oh, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","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=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}