{"id":165,"date":"2006-04-19T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/street-ball\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T02:48:16","slug":"street-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/street-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home from work tonight, Wren and Rei begged me to go outside and &#8220;play Nancy Drew&#8221;, where I run around the back yard and creek and nature trail chasing them in circles, trying to &#8220;kidnap&#8221; them and tie them up. Last time we played, I managed to convert the game into a cannonball shoot, where they would run and I would hurl a large ball of string at them to &#8220;break their legs&#8221; and &#8220;smash their heads&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 :><\/p>\n<p>This time, I told them it&#8217;s hard to think up fresh ways to capture them, and I&#8217;m a bit embarrassed to run around the yard yelling like a thug with the neighbors in their yards, wondering if I really am crazy. So we agreed to try something structured &#8211; a game of baseball! Nicholas and Jay joined in. If you want a great way to play ball with 5 or 6 people, try this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>rotate the batter through the whole group;<\/li>\n<li>after you bat, if you get on base, stay there and run the bases until you score or get out;<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;re not at bat and not on base, play the outfield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This worked out great! Everybody was always busy. And everybody played whatever position they felt like &#8211; pitcher, shortstop, 3rd, 1st, even catcher. Highly recommended! Next time everybody (except Nicholas, a die-hard baseball fan) wants to try soccer &#8211; we&#8217;ll see if we can&#8217;t come up with something good there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home from work tonight, Wren and Rei begged me to go outside and &#8220;play Nancy Drew&#8221;, where I run around the back yard and creek and nature trail chasing them in circles, trying to &#8220;kidnap&#8221; them and tie them up. Last time we played, I managed to convert the game into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/street-ball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Street Ball!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/soccer-drills\/","url_meta":{"origin":165,"position":0},"title":"Soccer Drills","author":"m","date":"August 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to try to keep a list of soccer drills that have worked well for the girls' teams. 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