{"id":20,"date":"2023-05-17T21:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macjoey.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:34:52","slug":"yes-i-play-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"yes.. i play pool."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started playing pool in high school, but i just went with my friends to play around at the local bowling alley.  It was in college when I purchased my first cue &#8211; a purple butt Mcdermoot basic cue &#8211; nothing fancy, just stained with no inlays.  When i was college I won a tournament to play against Jack White (Pool hustler) from the back in the day.  He comes to school campuses.  This is my 15 minutes of pool fame.. when i knew how to play pool better.  Right click on the video and select play.  Sorry for the bad  VHS capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 720;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"http:\/\/macjoey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/finished.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing pool in high school, but i just went with my friends to play around at the local bowling alley. It was in college when I purchased my first cue &#8211; a purple butt Mcdermoot basic cue &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/?p=20\">Continue reading <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":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billiards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macjoey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}