{"id":695,"date":"2015-12-25T00:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2015-12-25T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:40:58","slug":"stella-may-have-appeared-at-local-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/25\/stella-may-have-appeared-at-local-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella may have appeared at local basketball game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_696\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Number check on Lady Pirates\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Number check on Lady Pirates<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The main character in the fictional <strong><em>Drunk on Peace and Quie<\/em><\/strong>t is named Stella. \u00a0She is fiery, packs a Pink Lady pistol, and is the stereotypical independent mountain woman. \u00a0In reality, I coach middle school girls basketball and our last game was officiated messily (at least in my opinion). \u00a0We lost after playing with a great deal of character (well, except for me, I cussed under my breath).<\/p>\n<p>The aunt of one of our star players commented, &#8220;I thought they did a great job! And\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/becky.crabtree.7?hc_location=ufi\" target=\"_blank\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=1397850043&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D\">Becky<\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure I was seeing Stella come out in the varsity game!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a reader to bridge the gap between the fiction I write and the life I lead just tickled me to death. \u00a0I am NO Stella. \u00a0My answer. &#8220;The girls did an excellent job! [Stella would not have put up with that foolishness! She may have even shot somebody during a timeout!]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still chuckling even though the pain of losing remains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main character in the fictional Drunk on Peace and Quiet is named Stella. \u00a0She is fiery, packs a Pink Lady pistol, and is the stereotypical independent mountain woman. \u00a0In reality, I coach middle school girls basketball and our last game was officiated messily (at least in my opinion). \u00a0We lost after playing with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alaska-hoops-coach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}