{"id":10770,"date":"2011-12-10T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2011-12-10T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T15:28:50","slug":"rock-town-hall-youth-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-youth-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall Youth Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10771\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10771\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-town-hall-youth-movement\/adtekteamphoto\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10771\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdtekTeamPhoto-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Like my beer league team, RTH needs a youth movement.\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdtekTeamPhoto-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdtekTeamPhoto-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdtekTeamPhoto.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like my beer league hockey team, RTH needs a youth movement.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recent picture of my beer league hockey team in Vancouver. If you look close, you&#8217;ll see that many of us are early-40s, while others are 20 years younger.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t intend for this to happen. Most of us older guys would have been content with seeing other older guys show up once a week. But other older guys had kids, wives, jobs -all things that interfered with showing up to play hockey and, more importantly, drink beer.<\/p>\n<p>So, somehow, a youth movement happened on our team, which has been around since 1987, incidentally. The young kids though make it a pretty fun environment for the rest of us. It&#8217;s fun when they fuck up and we mock them. It&#8217;s fun to listen to them complain about seemingly trivial life problems, like STDs. And it&#8217;s fun to watch the blinding speed of a kid two years out of junior who doesn&#8217;t know Bobby Orr from Bobby Hull.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would Rock Town Hall benefit from a youth movement?<\/em> You be the judge. Bonus points to the RTHers who can identify <strong>NorthVanCoveman<\/strong> in the pic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a recent picture of my beer league hockey team in Vancouver. If you look close, you&#8217;ll see that many of us are early-40s, while others are 20 years younger. We didn&#8217;t intend for this to happen. Most of us older guys would have been content with seeing other older guys show up once a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-youth-movement\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}