{"id":3993,"date":"2012-08-16T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3993"},"modified":"2014-08-03T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T01:19:18","slug":"the-retarded-children-play-baseball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-retarded-children-play-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retarded Children Play Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the coaches who try<br \/>\nto teach them the game,<br \/>\nand think of the pleasure<\/p>\n<p>of the large-faced boy<br \/>\non second who raises hand and glove<br \/>\nstraight up making the precise<\/p>\n<p>shape of a ball, even though<br \/>\nthe ball\u2019s now over<br \/>\nthe outfield. And think of the left<\/p>\n<p>and right fielders going deeper<br \/>\njust to watch its roundness<br \/>\nmaterialize out of the sky<\/p>\n<p>and drop at their feet. Both teams<br \/>\nare so in love with this moment<br \/>\nwhen the bat makes the ball jump<\/p>\n<p>or fly that when it happens<br \/>\neverybody shouts, and the girl<br \/>\nwith slanted eyes on first base<\/p>\n<p>leaps off to let the batter by.<br \/>\nForget the coaches shouting back<br \/>\nabout the way the game is played<\/p>\n<p>and consider the game<br \/>\nthey\u2019re already playing, or playing<br \/>\nperhaps elsewhere on some other field,<\/p>\n<p>like the shortstop, who stands transfixed<br \/>\nall through the action, staring<br \/>\nat what appears to be nothing.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3993\" data-postid=\"3993\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3993 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the coaches who try to teach them the game, and think of the pleasure of the large-faced boy on second who raises hand and glove straight up making the precise shape of a ball, even though the ball\u2019s now over the outfield. And think of the left and right fielders going deeper just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11989,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3993\/revisions\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}