{"id":64,"date":"2008-12-30T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-12-30T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:21:07","slug":"a-couple-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"A couple of firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of them being my first You Tube video.\u00a0 I recently uploaded a clip from a trip my wife and I took to Ireland the summer of &#8217;07.\u00a0 We were driving the Sheep&#8217;s Head Peninsula when we came upon a Road Bowling game in progress.\u00a0 We pulled over to watch and were welcomed by the participants and spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Road Bowling is kind of like golf, except the ball is 22 oz. of steel, you throw it, and the course is a public road (notice the cars driving through the middle of the game).\u00a0 Basically, two guys try to get the ball from point A to point B in the fewest number of throws, and the distance between the points can be pretty far.\u00a0 I think we walked about a half-mile, and the game was already going when we got there.\u00a0 In the video, you might catch a glimpse of a guy with a metal detector (for finding stray balls).\u00a0 And those clumps of grass in the road are there to help the players aim the longest shot down the road.\u00a0 In case you&#8217;re wondering, the guy in the dark shirt won the game.\u00a0 And afterward, they invited us to the pub to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>The second first is an attempt to embed said You Tube video on this site.\u00a0 So this is a test, really.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z-JJ5l0_vJI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z-JJ5l0_vJI\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> It appears to have worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of them being my first You Tube video.\u00a0 I recently uploaded a clip from a trip my wife and I took to Ireland the summer of &#8217;07.\u00a0 We were driving the Sheep&#8217;s Head Peninsula when we came upon a Road Bowling game in progress.\u00a0 We pulled over to watch and were welcomed by the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}