{"id":8968,"date":"2014-02-19T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2014-03-19T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:08:34","slug":"go-hornets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=8968","title":{"rendered":"Go Hornets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8931\" title=\"Kerri Pennington January 2014 018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-018.jpg 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My heart secretly swells when I see my girls don a cheerleading uniform.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t help it.\u00a0 Some of my fondest memories are cheerleading practices in summers with my best friends. \u00a0 No make-up, girls being girls, learning to be a team, learning to love each other and our sport.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that whatever they decide to pursue, they learn as much about life and friendship as I did on my own team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8930\" title=\"Kerri Pennington January 2014 017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-017.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8934\" title=\"Kerri Pennington January 2014 021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kerri-Pennington-January-2014-021.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So proud of this chick!\u00a0 (I&#8217;ll admit, she wanted to quit her basketball team when she realized she was one of only two girls, but she stuck it out!)\u00a0 This was a step up.\u00a0 Away games versus other schools.\u00a0 Not like the usual basketball clinic days of her first, second and third grade year.\u00a0 Fourth grade plays with the big dogs.\u00a0 Fourth, fifth and sixth graders are combined to form the &#8220;Elementary Team&#8221; that plays other schools in our area. \u00a0 She started in most of the games.\u00a0 (Not really because she&#8217;s that good.\u00a0 Just because her coach is that good.)\u00a0 She gained so much confidence and experience and I feel sure next year, she&#8217;ll actually attempt a basket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart secretly swells when I see my girls don a cheerleading uniform.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t help it.\u00a0 Some of my fondest memories are cheerleading practices in summers with my best friends. \u00a0 No make-up, girls being girls, learning to be a team, learning to love each other and our sport.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}