{"id":27067,"date":"2020-11-04T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27067"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:16:08","slug":"i-tried-to-teach-him-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/i-tried-to-teach-him-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tried To Teach Him Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met this boy when he was a year old: <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/sports\/john-burroughs-alum-chris-booker-paves-unlikely-football-path-to-ohio-state\/?fbclid=IwAR3R8M6RzZBBXsBpYOu0xEC6bGW29T8ly5-TY_r3tuVHQ_pah3yP17ZiDjY\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Burroughs alum Chris Booker paves unlikely football path to Ohio State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His mother and my beautiful wife worked together, and our families had dinner together.  Well, &#8220;families&#8221; might be a little misleading&#8211;my beautiful wife and I were freshly married and did not yet have children.  As we had dinner together, the toddler had a Fisher Price golf club.  I tried to teach him how to put both hands on the club, extend it horizontally, and say, &#8220;Cross check.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it didn&#8217;t stick.  (Ahut, as my mother would say, a little verbal rimshot to say <em>Did you catch the joke there?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>However, it is entirely possible now that I will be able to say in a year or two that an NFL player danced at my wedding.  We have photos of little Christopher spinning on the dance floor of the reception hall.  I will explain to everyone that he was already practicing his touchdown dance.<\/p>\n<p>As long as he&#8217;s not a member of the Chicago Bears.  If he is, I will disallow any knowledge of him and delete this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met this boy when he was a year old: John Burroughs alum Chris Booker paves unlikely football path to Ohio State. His mother and my beautiful wife worked together, and our families had dinner together. Well, &#8220;families&#8221; might be a little misleading&#8211;my beautiful wife and I were freshly married and did not yet have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27072,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions\/27072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}