{"id":99,"date":"2006-07-28T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/28\/boomerangs\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T00:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T06:43:56","slug":"boomerangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Boomerangs Are Coming Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe I should say: We&#8217;re coming back to boomerangs. I have purchased the airline tickets and I&#8217;ve reserved the room, so it is official: Ace and I are attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~jesmucker\/expo\/index.html\">2006 US Boomerang National Championships and Exposition in Conyers, GA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 3 years since we attended our first-ever boomerang tournament: The <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/2003\/10\/20\/usba-national-boomerang-expo-in-houston\/\">2003 Nationals in Houston<\/a>. You may recall that in that tournament, Ace collected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/boomerangs\/boomexpo2003\/boomexpo2003_02\/IMG_2310.jpg.html\">so many medals around his neck<\/a> that he could barely stand up straight. I was even able to score <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/boomerangs\/boomexpo2003\/boomexpo2003_02\/IMG_2297.jpg.html\">a few medals myself<\/a>. This year, Ace will have his work cut out for him as he is moving up from the Novice division to the Intermediate division. This means he and I will actually be competing against each other. Vegas is split on whether the young lion can take down his dad, but I have a feeling that if Ace can deal with the pressure, he&#8217;ll make quite a good showing for himself.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got about a month until the trip and we&#8217;ve got lots to do. I hope to find time to make some boomerangs to enter in the craftsmanship contests, and I still need to produce or procure some particular event-specific boomerangs so Ace and I don&#8217;t have to share all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe I should say: We&#8217;re coming back to boomerangs. I have purchased the airline tickets and I&#8217;ve reserved the room, so it is official: Ace and I are attending the 2006 US Boomerang National Championships and Exposition in Conyers, GA. It&#8217;s been 3 years since we attended our first-ever boomerang tournament: The 2003 Nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew","category-boomerangs","category-bruce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}