{"id":10864,"date":"2015-05-13T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2015-05-13T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:33:57","slug":"hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/hoover\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-DSC_2849\"<\/a>When Timothy was younger, his coach in Arizona gave him the nickname of “Hoover vacuum cleaner” because he scooped up baseballs so well. He is still a ball-stopping machine as catcher and first baseman. I’ve heard a coach say that\u00a0he is\u00a0the best catcher among the city teams. He’s also a great first base player.<\/p>\n

\"1-DSC_2863\"<\/a>He’s also a consistent, strong hitter. More than that, I like to watch Timothy play baseball because he seems to have a good time doing it. He smiles, shakes off rough innings, and keeps a positive attitude. I love that quality in Timothy.<\/p>\n

Richard is an assistant coach on Timothy’s\u00a0team and Mark plays baseball at a different park on the same evenings. I’ve only been able to see Timothy play twice this season, but I’ve been to all of Mark’s games. We blinked and now baseball season is almost over. Wow, it’s been a quick one.<\/p>\n

Time is something we can’t slow down, and it’s in the spring that I feel this the most. It’s Timothy’s last spring playing baseball. It’s Paige’s last month of high school. These moments are sifting through my fingers and I try to chase them and hold them down by describing\u00a0them with\u00a0words before they wander away\u00a0on the wind.<\/p>\n

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When Timothy was younger, his coach in Arizona gave him the nickname of “Hoover vacuum cleaner” because he scooped up baseballs so well. He is still a ball-stopping machine as catcher and first baseman. I’ve heard a coach say that\u00a0he is\u00a0the best catcher among the city teams. He’s also a great first base player. He’s … Continue reading Hoover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-richards-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10867,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions\/10867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}