{"id":189,"date":"2023-10-08T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/?p=189"},"modified":"2024-05-31T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:39:47","slug":"04-speed-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/04-speed-light\/","title":{"rendered":"04 | Sport Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8280.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8280.png 793w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8280-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_8280-768x775.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Blood pumping, sweat dripping, and one goal&#8211; catch the disc.<\/em><\/strong><br><em>1\/320 sec; f\/5.6; ISO 400; 55.00 mm<\/em><br><em>Additional edits were made using Adobe Photoshop 2022.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Tell a story in sports&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past weekend, I got to watch my freshman-year younger brother play his one and only Ultimate (frisbee) game as part of his school&#8217;s Ultimate club. I myself have never played the game competitively, but I have played it for fun before, and it is honestly one of the most unique sports out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ultimate isn&#8217;t particularly unique in its basic principle (it is essentially a mix of football and basketball, with a frisbee), it is a sport that has long prided itself on being a bastion of progressiveness in sports. Often, Ultimate leagues feature co-ed teams, self-refereeing, and other cooperation-focused game rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This game that my brother played was, in fact, a co-ed game, and I honestly think that was a neat experience for him. He&#8217;s only ever played on boys&#8217; teams, so I believe having a whole new community for him to connect with, along with being new to the school he&#8217;s now going to, has given him a whole new angle of sports to belong to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tell a story in sports&#8221; This past weekend, I got to watch my freshman-year younger brother play his one and only Ultimate (frisbee) game as part of his school&#8217;s Ultimate club. I myself have never played the game competitively, but I have played it for fun before, and it is honestly one of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}