{"id":98,"date":"2008-07-14T23:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-11-10T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:33:31","slug":"the-return-of-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/the-return-of-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;About a year and a half ago I came to a horrible realization.  It was Super Bowl Sunday, Colts vs Bears, and I was invited to the <a href=\"https:\/\/justinline.com\/wordpress\/?p=62\">Stupor Bowl<\/a> at El Dorado Lanes in Westchester, CA.  As I got ready to head to the party, I went to grab my bowling ball and shoes.  I found the shoes, but the ball was missing!  To this day I have no idea what happened to it.  People ask me &#8220;how do you lose a bowling ball.&#8221;  I DON&#8217;T KNOW!  So, since that day of loss I have been 15 lbs too light.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To fill this void I navigated the depths of eBay in search of a <a href=\"https:\/\/justinline.com\/wordpress\/?p=12\">Columbia Messenger Ti<\/a>.  This past February, a full year after losing the original, I found one that cost more to ship than the bid price.  On Friday I finally trekked over to Bach&#8217;s Bowling Supply in Torrance, CA to get the ball filled (from the previous owner&#8217;s finger holes) and drilled to my specifications (see image below; it&#8217;s more complicated than you think).  I cannot wait to pick up the ball tomorrow and get rollin&#8217;!<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/graphics\/bowling_ball_measurements_071108.jpg\" class=\"borderonly\"><br \/>My specs.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;About a year and a half ago I came to a horrible realization. It was Super Bowl Sunday, Colts vs Bears, and I was invited to the Stupor Bowl at El Dorado Lanes in Westchester, CA. As I got ready to head to the party, I went to grab my bowling ball and shoes. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/the-return-of-the-messenger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Return of the Messenger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}