{"id":173,"date":"2008-10-14T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-11-07T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T02:00:50","slug":"boomerang-nationals-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Boomerang Nationals in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boomerangexpo.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/images\/2008_USBA_Nationals_Logo_30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2008 National Boomerang Championships and Expo are coming to Dallas!<\/p>\n<p>I am co-hosting the tournament at Eastfield College in Mesquite Thursday through Sunday. It\u2019s my bad luck that we finally got the tournament on the same year that <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle2008.ifba-online.com\/\">the world championships were in Seattle<\/a>. Lots of the regular competitors used up their travel budget for that tournament, so I\u2019m not expecting as big a turnout as the Nationals usually have. We\u2019ll have around thirty throwers, and some of these folks are the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see something you\u2019ve never seen before and may never see again, come on down to Mesquite on Saturday or Sunday and watch a bunch of guys and gals throw curved sticks at themselves. In addition to seeing some exciting action, you can purchase boomerangs and we\u2019ll teach you how to throw and maybe even catch them.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the official web site with maps and schedules: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomerangexpo.com\">www.boomerangexpo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 National Boomerang Championships and Expo are coming to Dallas! I am co-hosting the tournament at Eastfield College in Mesquite Thursday through Sunday. It\u2019s my bad luck that we finally got the tournament on the same year that the world championships were in Seattle. Lots of the regular competitors used up their travel budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew","category-boomerangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}