{"id":3750,"date":"2026-05-27T05:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:49:19","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyday, around 4:15 pm, Stella and I head to the back yard to play ball.  This is a pile of balls that she does not like to play with and will not bring back when playing &#8220;fetch.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not sure why, but she runs after then, looks at them and says &#8220;Nope!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I end up going out there and picking them up all across the yard, silly dog &#8211; who&#8217;s training who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She does have a yellow one, and an orange one that she&#8217;ll bring back all day long.  Something about them is &#8220;just right&#8221; for playing, the other balls &#8211; they suck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still sit there and throw and throw and throw!  When she gets tired she will run and grab the ball, then run right past me back inott he house &#8211; I&#8217;m done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We always have a fun time and hey, it is exercise for both of us right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 147 \u2014 Don\u2019t fear being seen trying<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effort is admirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Johnstown Technology Partners<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colorado&#8217;s Premier Computer Repair Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast, honest, and reliable IT solutions for Johnstown and beyond. 30+ years of expertise in computer repair and data recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday, around 4:15 pm, Stella and I head to the back yard to play ball. This is a pile of balls that she does not like to play with and will not bring back when playing &#8220;fetch.&#8221; I am not sure why, but she runs after then, looks at them and says &#8220;Nope!! So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}