{"id":11581,"date":"2021-09-10T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2021-09-10T04:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:25:48","slug":"back-all-in-before-all-out-and-triangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11581","title":{"rendered":"back, all in before all out, and triangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/51441651721\/\" title=\"A Bump, Set, Spike toward Normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51441651721_6c425fc018_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"A Bump, Set, Spike toward Normal\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. We&#8217;ve been able to return to indoor volleyball finally. I have missed my volleyball sneakers, which got less than six months of games before the world shut down. (I could wear them for grass court volleyball, but opt not to in order to keep them nice for as long as possible.) Also, the new permutation of the team seems nice, and I&#8217;m not saying that just because they opted to keep me as captain.<\/p>\n<p>2. I got to spend the last hours the outdoor pools were open to the public for the year floating in the deep end. In contrast to the penultimate day, a cool afternoon that threatened to drip, Monday was sunny and warm, and the pool was packed with everyone who hadn&#8217;t left town for the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p>3. D.C. is full of triangle parks, caused by intersections between our streets on a grid and state-named streets, which are at a diagonal. They&#8217;re clever reclamations of &#8220;wasted&#8221; space, sometimes holding statues, like the ones near my house, dog parks, or tables and chairs, like the one by the pizzeria, where I took my to-go supper after the staff told me they&#8217;d already closed the patio.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. We&#8217;ve been able to return to indoor volleyball finally. I have missed my volleyball sneakers, which got less than six months of games before the world shut down. 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