{"id":98,"date":"2003-10-20T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/20\/usba-national-boomerang-expo-in-houston\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T19:15:08","slug":"usba-national-boomerang-expo-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"2003 USBA National Boomerang Expo in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">Though I flipped and flopped about whether to actually attend this thing, boy am I glad we went! We had planned to merely spectate, take part in workshops, and help out wherever we could, but on the night we arrived, I ran into tournament director Tony Brazelton, and he convinced Andrew, Holly, and me to sign up for the actual competitions. Andrew, or &#8220;Ace&#8221; as he was known by the other boomerangers, is now the <strong>National Champion<\/strong> of the both the Novice and Junior divisions. Holly won several silver medals, and I even managed to score a few medals myself in the Intermediate division. Check back soon for a longer write-up on this super-fun event, but for now <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/boomexpo2003\">enjoy the photo galleries<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/font>You may also be interested in these articles from the local Houston papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/story.hts\/sports\/blinebury\/2160077\"><font face=\"Arial\">Houston Chronicle: Interest in odd sport, like boomerang, returns<\/font><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/issues\/2003-10-16\/sports.html\/1\/index.html\"><font face=\"Arial\">Houson Press: <span class=\"storyhed\">What Goes Around Comes Around<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24houston.com\/content\/local_news\/harris_county\/?SecID=144&#038;ArID=16906\"><font face=\"Arial\">News 24 Houston: <span class=\"headline1\">Boomerang expo comes to Houston<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I flipped and flopped about whether to actually attend this thing, boy am I glad we went! We had planned to merely spectate, take part in workshops, and help out wherever we could, but on the night we arrived, I ran into tournament director Tony Brazelton, and he convinced Andrew, Holly, and me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boomerangs","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}