{"id":6248,"date":"2012-06-07T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2012-06-07T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:08:03","slug":"on-my-nieces-gynmastics-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"On My Niece&#8217;s Gynmastics Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, my sister asked me if I could take today off so I could drive down to northern Virginia and see my niece&#8217;s gynmastics class.  It was a special family day, and she thought I&#8217;d enjoy it and that my niece would enjoy having me there.  I&#8217;d get to see my niece takes tumbles, and I&#8217;d get to meet Coach Marty, my niece&#8217;s gynmastics coach.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I had to decline.  Taking today off didn&#8217;t fit my work schedule, and I couldn&#8217;t have known at the time she asked how true that would be.  (It&#8217;s a week of deadlines, and I&#8217;ve worked late at the office every day this week, written at home until midnight each night, and gotten up early to write even more before breakfast.  Publishing schedules <b>have<\/b> to be met.)<\/p>\n<p>I checked Facebook on my lunchtime, and I saw that my sister had posted a status update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herndon.patch.com\/articles\/hhs-alum-business-owner-marty-newsom-dies\">Coach Marty passed away earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My niece <b>adored<\/b> Coach Marty.  When I&#8217;d ask her about gynmastics, she&#8217;d talk about Coach Marty and how he always called her &#8220;silly.&#8221;  I never met him, but he was important to my niece, he helped a lot of kids, he touched lives, and that was what really mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Time for happier thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>As seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5916646\/pbs-autotunes-mr-rogers-the-results-are-tender-and-trippy\">io9<\/a>, Mr. Rogers is autotuned and remixed into a fun and surprisingly moving music video by John D. Boswell, the genius behind the Symphony of Science:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"420\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFzXaFbxDcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFzXaFbxDcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, my sister asked me if I could take today off so I could drive down to northern Virginia and see my niece&#8217;s gynmastics class. It was a special family day, and she thought I&#8217;d enjoy it and that my niece would enjoy having me there. I&#8217;d get to see my niece<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6248\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On My Niece&#8217;s Gynmastics Coach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}