{"id":9487,"date":"2019-09-27T01:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9487"},"modified":"2019-09-27T02:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:56:46","slug":"baseball-volleyball-and-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9487","title":{"rendered":"baseball, volleyball, and fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. In a surprise to this Mets fan after such a rocky start to the season, my favorite baseball team wasn&#8217;t eliminated from playoff contention until the final Wednesday of the season. (And my second-favorite team, the Nationals, clinched a wild-card spot the night before.)<\/p>\n<p>2. I got to try out my new volleyball sneakers on the court. They did not make me play like Kerri Walsh, but they did make my knees feel way better. (Oh, and my new indoor team seems nice. I joined them at the bar for a while after the game because Rudi was out for the evening.)<\/p>\n<p>3. The heat hasn&#8217;t disappeared for good yet, but autumn has arrived. I&#8217;m looking forward to crisp weather and changing leaves and knitwear season (although not to earlier darkness).<\/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. In a surprise to this Mets fan after such a rocky start to the season, my favorite baseball team wasn&#8217;t eliminated from playoff contention until the final Wednesday of the season. (And my second-favorite team, the Nationals, clinched a wild-card spot the night before.) 2. 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