{"id":3585,"date":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:06:59","slug":"stories-from-the-crowd-from-balls-to-screwballs-to-highballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the Crowd: From Balls to Screwballs to Highballs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Bob Emerson<br \/><br \/>Recorded at Creek Haus on the banks of Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Texas on a brisk afternoon in March of 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bob_Emerson.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4761-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excerpt From<br \/>Stories from the Crowd<br \/>Scott Ballew<br \/>This material may be protected by copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Emerson Recorded at Creek Haus on the banks of Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Texas on a brisk afternoon in March of 2013. Excerpt FromStories from the CrowdScott BallewThis material may be protected by copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}