{"id":6768,"date":"2012-12-10T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2012-12-10T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T02:49:52","slug":"on-the-annual-bowling-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6768","title":{"rendered":"On the Annual Bowling Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went bowling today.<\/p>\n<p>At the office we have a Christmas tradition.  The department goes bowling in December.<\/p>\n<p>But then we stopped having the annual Christmas bowling outing.  Two years ago we went for a laser tag outing with the Sales department.  And last year we didn&#8217;t do any team-building activities at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Today, then, was the first time I&#8217;d been bowling since December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t <i>terrible<\/i>.  I wasn&#8217;t great, but I wasn&#8217;t terrible.  I broke 100 in both games.<\/p>\n<p>I realized my problem.  I throw hard and fast.  Power, not finesse.  No spin.  I do strike pins with authority, but that limits the cascade effect.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good outing.  We got back to the office to some surprising news, but that&#8217;s a tale for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went bowling today. At the office we have a Christmas tradition. The department goes bowling in December. But then we stopped having the annual Christmas bowling outing. Two years ago we went for a laser tag outing with the Sales department. And last year we didn&#8217;t do any team-building activities at Christmas. Today, then,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6768\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Annual Bowling Outing&#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":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","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=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}