{"id":10826,"date":"2011-02-09T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10826"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-90-giant-inflatable-basketball-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10826","title":{"rendered":"Day 90 &#8211; Giant Inflatable Basketball (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj92DMcuUJmTPcI4t2ezV_1TXnBOGtAj4Y-DoxsbwtQVw3nwb1o98aavoAroVjKOPsyT7nVi90BXHyypf7czuX_4yWjEwGo01AfoYy3_H-SyCsLHrd1_SGBVMvEWBjPioDJ3RLC4UMoMsY\/s200\/Picture+161.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I picked up this oversized inflatable basketball in Clay City, Indiana, if I remember correctly.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a Free Methodist camp in Clay City &#8230; and very little else.\u00a0  There was a little shop &#8220;downtown&#8221; which sold ice cream and an odd collection of this and that.\u00a0 We actually bought their restaurant booths when they went out of the ice cream business.\u00a0 The booths fit perfectly in the youth room housed in the basement of the parsonage we lived in at the time.\u00a0 The basketball and a smilarfootball were for camp games. They&#8217;ve been in a box ever since. So I took the basketball to school with me over a week ago, but put it in my trunk and kept forgetting to get it out.\u00a0 Today after school, I remembered and got it out of the trunk, but nobody was around except the student I affectionalely call &#8220;Satan&#8221;.\u00a0 She suggested I leave it in the back of somebody&#8217;s pick-up truck.\u00a0 So I diid.\u00a0  I just hope it doesn&#8217;t blow out of the truck bed as the driver heads down the road.\u00a0 I&#8217;d hate to think I littered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this oversized inflatable basketball in Clay City, Indiana, if I remember correctly.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a Free Methodist camp in Clay City &#8230; and very little else.\u00a0 There was a little shop &#8220;downtown&#8221; which sold ice cream and an odd collection of this and that.\u00a0 We actually bought their restaurant booths when they went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10828,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions\/10828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}