{"id":274,"date":"2009-06-27T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosskressel.wordpress.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-06-27T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:01:55","slug":"kickball-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/27\/kickball-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickball for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I am still sick.\u00a0 It is a sinus infection and I am on antibiotics.\u00a0 My nose is all stuff and every so often I cough and it hurts my throat, but whatever, it is all part of being sick.\u00a0 Things aren&#8217;t too bad here beyond that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m about half way done with the book that I&#8217;m reading and figure I&#8217;ll finish it this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I want to get on to what the purpose of this entry truly is.\u00a0 I was talking to a friend of mine, Vern Holton about random stuff.\u00a0 I used to play sports and somehow we got into a conversation about kickball and we came up with some really cool ideas.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">One of the ideas was to go to CRS and try and start a kickball league.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if there is one at CofC yet as CRS organizations are not required to register with the SGA<\/span> (Alex Hoang let me know that there is a CofC intramural team).\u00a0 Another idea would be to create a kickball tournament.\u00a0 Just like SAA does trivia, why couldn&#8217;t a bunch of independent people create a kickball tournament and invite organizations from all around he college to register teams with proceeds going to a charitable cause in the Charleston area like Low County Food bank.\u00a0 This event to me seems like a completely possible event, but it can&#8217;t be done obviously if there isn&#8217;t enough interest.\u00a0 If enough organizations register, we could make it into something like an all night kickball tournament, sort of a kickball version of Dance Marathon and Relay for Life.\u00a0 An event that could be this large would take a ton of planning, so I need all the help I can get.\u00a0 If you have any interest, please contact me by email, cell phone, a comment on this entry, join the interest group on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=102264987623\">facebook<\/a> or anything like that.\u00a0 Together, we can make this happen!<\/p>\n<p>Ross<\/p>\n<p>770-846-5401<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:rskresse@edisto.cofc.edu\">rskresse@edisto.cofc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I am still sick.\u00a0 It is a sinus infection and I am on antibiotics.\u00a0 My nose is all stuff and every so often I cough and it hurts my throat, but whatever, it is all part of being sick.\u00a0 Things aren&#8217;t too bad here beyond that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m about half way done with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}