{"id":46,"date":"2026-08-26T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:35:01","slug":"my-only-bowling-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"My Only Bowling Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SO_Bowling_2019_Revised-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SO_Bowling_2019_Revised-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SO_Bowling_2019_Revised-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SO_Bowling_2019_Revised.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me at my only Special Olympics regional for bowling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of all the Special Olympics sports that I&#8217;ve done, the one that I did the least of is bowling. I signed up for it in 2019 because I was already doing for community engagement and my parents thought it would be an organic way to grow my skills. Practice was held at the Triangle Bowling Alley near the Triangle shopping center, while regionals took place in October at a Vancouver bowling alley. While I enjoyed the experience of doing Special Olympics bowling, I simply did not felt the urge to continue it. This thought was solidified as my attention difted towards finding ways to entertain myself while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest impact that Special Olympics bowling had on my life was that it was the first time I met Kellan, who I would later reconnect with through community engagement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the Special Olympics sports that I&#8217;ve done, the one that I did the least of is bowling. I signed up for it in 2019 because I was already doing for community engagement and my parents thought it would be an organic way to grow my skills. Practice was held at the Triangle Bowling Alley near the Triangle shopping center, while regionals took place in October at a Vancouver bowling alley. While I enjoyed the experience of doing Special Olympics bowling, I simply did not felt the urge to continue it. This thought was solidified as my attention difted towards finding ways to entertain myself while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest impact that Special Olympics bowling had on my life was that it was the first time I met Kellan, who I would later reconnect with through community engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympicsstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}