{"id":174,"date":"2006-09-07T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/07\/soccer-mom\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T01:44:16","slug":"soccer-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"soccer mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has finally happened. After five years of avoiding it, I finally volunteered to be the team soccer mom. That means I type up a contact list and game schedule, organize a snack list, order a banner and plan the end of the season party in November. It&#8217;s not so bad. Kinda fun actually to make the decision about how the banner should look.<\/p>\n<p>I like passing out information.<\/p>\n<p>This year, three of the eight U14 teams have names with the word &#8220;angel&#8221; in them: The Sky Angels, Blue Angels, and The Red Hot Angels. Two have to do with food: The Banana Splits and the Sweet Tarts (that&#8217;s a good one). One is a totally girlie color: Pink Fuscia and the last two are just aspiring to be cool: The Pirettes and Rip Curls.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s pre-pre-pubescent names were Hot Shots, Dragons, The (Grape Balls of) Fire, Silver Bullets, Hot Shots, The Yellow Jackets and The Force.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the girls have hit middle school. Goodbye childhood.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/two-teeth.jpg\" alt=\"two-teeth.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has finally happened. After five years of avoiding it, I finally volunteered to be the team soccer mom. That means I type up a contact list and game schedule, organize a snack list, order a banner and plan the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childhood","category-mothering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}