{"id":3372,"date":"2014-11-29T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2014-11-30T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T15:34:39","slug":"arctic-bocce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/arctic-bocce\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Bocce"},"content":{"rendered":"

We didn’t let a little snow and frigid temperatures interfere with our Thanksgiving Bocce game. Grandpa Jeff got out the snow blower and made us a court. The teams:<\/p>\n

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  1. Griffin, Nik, Alli, Pam<\/li>\n
  2. Maggie, Andrew, Sarah, Jeff<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We played to 11, and it was close to the very end. In the final round, 10-9, team 2 landed the clinching point. They simply had superior mastery of snow-braking techniques.<\/p>\n

    \"The <\/a>
    The teams arrayed. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Bocce <\/a>
    Bocce balls in the snow. <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Coach <\/a>
    Coach Maggie <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Grandma <\/a>
    Grandma “Bocce Wizard” <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Snow <\/a>
    Snow is fun! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Look <\/a>
    Look at that technique! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Perfect <\/a>
    Perfect follow-through. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"The <\/a>
    The intensity was palpable. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
    \"Great <\/a>
    Great sportsmanship to the end. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

    On the Roy side, the bocce tradition began at a rental house in Fort Bragg, California, on the Mendocino coast. We used to rent the place for Thanksgiving in the early 2000s, inviting friends and family for feast and fun. Here are two pictures from that era (with a slightly different climate!):<\/p>\n

    \"2002<\/a>
    2002 – bocce court with the house and hot tub in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
    \"2004<\/a>
    2004 – bocce court with the glorious Pacific<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We didn’t let a little snow and frigid temperatures interfere with our Thanksgiving Bocce game. Grandpa Jeff got out the snow blower and made us a court. The teams: Griffin, Nik, Alli, Pam Maggie, Andrew, Sarah, Jeff We played to 11, and it was close to the very end. In the final round, 10-9, team … Continue reading Arctic Bocce<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,45,54],"tags":[20,14,60,27,28,41,81,51,57],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-griffin","category-maggie","category-photo","tag-alli","tag-family","tag-gallery","tag-grandma-pam","tag-grandpa-jeff","tag-griffin-says","tag-maggie","tag-pictures","tag-winter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC_0026c.jpg?fit=2600%2C1133&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}