{"id":4051,"date":"2016-09-22T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:56:00","slug":"sports-crazy-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2016\/09\/22\/sports-crazy-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports crazy Roy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/09\/blog-saving-the-bball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4034\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/09\/blog-saving-the-bball.jpg\" alt=\"blog-saving-the-bball\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/09\/blog-saving-the-bball.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/09\/blog-saving-the-bball-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0 the sun is shining at 5pm, you most likely will find Roy playing sports with his friends.\u00a0 If the clay\/dirt basketball and volleyball courts are a bit on the wet side, you\u2019ll find him weeding them, sometimes with his friends, if they show up.\u00a0 He always brings his favorite basketball, though he and others have provided all sorts of balls to be kept at the ready on the mission.\u00a0 Now that we live out at the CEFA farm, he has to drive to the mission, by motorcycle or truck, choosing the vehicle depending on passengers or work.\u00a0 Yesterday he took off on his motorbike, happy because the sun was shining, hoping for a good game, maybe with the 6\u20195\u201d soldier from town who used to be on the national basketball team.\u00a0 But\u2026uh-oh.\u00a0 When he arrived and reached into his motorcycle\u2019s carryall, there was no ball!\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 It turns out that the ball bounced right out of the box, somewhere along the 5 kilometer road, on an especially bumpy turn.\u00a0 When he came home, he told his sad story to the night watchman, who then sent a couple of his kids out, first thing in the morning, to search in the 4\u2019 tall roadside grass.\u00a0 They found the ball and made Roy\u2019s day!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=4051&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0 the sun is shining at 5pm, you most likely will find Roy playing sports with his friends.\u00a0 If the clay\/dirt basketball and volleyball courts are a bit on the wet side, you\u2019ll find him weeding them, sometimes with his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2016\/09\/22\/sports-crazy-roy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports crazy Roy! 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