{"id":540,"date":"2015-10-04T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:19:59","slug":"milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this happened:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ZPlus.jpg\" alt=\"ZPlus\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Thursday night basketball team won the Premiership (championship) in the B-Grade league.\u00a0 That means we get promoted up to A-Reserve, with only A-Grade left above that.\u00a0 Being in a higher grade should yield a better caliber of basketball, which will be nice.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting tired of the footy mentality of some of the teams we play against that seem to crave unnecessary physical contact.\u00a0 Crazy to think I started this season shortly after I got here, and it is just now finishing up 6 months later.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, the summer season started the week after the grand final, so I&#8217;m already back at it . Our Monday team didn&#8217;t make the playoffs, so our goal for the summer season is the get the Monday team up one level.<\/p>\n<p>Another major milestone that occurred:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Car1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Car1.jpg\" alt=\"Car1\" width=\"1532\" height=\"724\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Car2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Car2.jpg\" alt=\"Car2\" width=\"1380\" height=\"829\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We bought a sweet-ass ride.\u00a0 This is our 2013 Toyota Yaris 4-door sedan.\u00a0 As if driving on the wrong side of the car on the wrong side of the road was not challenging enough, we got a 5-speed manual to shift with our left hand.<\/p>\n<p>We made our way onto the bowling green for the first time.\u00a0 I hope to get to play again soon, because I was terrible.\u00a0 I either got the right distance, or the right direction, never both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bowls.jpg\" alt=\"bowls\" width=\"1629\" height=\"1671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, since we&#8217;ve been here, we&#8217;ve been looking for a Victorian number plate (license plate) with our shared initials on it, and we finally found it :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NumberPlate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NumberPlate.jpg\" alt=\"NumberPlate\" width=\"690\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we got that going for us, which is nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this happened: My Thursday night basketball team won the Premiership (championship) in the B-Grade league.\u00a0 That means we get promoted up to A-Reserve, with only A-Grade left above that.\u00a0 Being in a higher grade should yield a better caliber of basketball, which will be nice.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting tired of the footy mentality of some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milestones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}