{"id":2923,"date":"2012-05-08T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:54:07","slug":"when-javelin-throwing-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"When javelin throwing goes bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luckily, Tim has not done this &#8211; or had it done to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long ago &#8211; 1981 &#8211; when I was working my last year in the Caribbean, half my teaching schedule was &#8220;gym&#8221;. Pretty neat living in Cayman and wearing gym togs to work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, on &#8220;Field Day&#8221; toward the end of the school year I was cleaning up the javelin field and a student (accidentally?) let fly. Somebody yelled, and I could see the shadow of the javelin moving across the ground. It missed me by about 12 feet. Still have a vivid memory &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This from my friend Joe &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20168eb3ca93b970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12012\" title=\"Javelin throw goes bad\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20168eb3ca93b970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e20168eb3ca93b970c-500wi-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily, Tim has not done this &#8211; or had it done to him. Long ago &#8211; 1981 &#8211; when I was working my last year in the Caribbean, half my teaching schedule was &#8220;gym&#8221;. Pretty neat living in Cayman and wearing gym togs to work! Anyway, on &#8220;Field Day&#8221; toward the end of the school [&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-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}