{"id":2622,"date":"2013-12-29T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2013-12-29T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T04:31:55","slug":"hoops-in-my-childhood-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2013\/12\/29\/hoops-in-my-childhood-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoops in my childhood neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went home to visit my family in Central Pennsylvania this week.\u00a0 Since I’ve been taking photos of improvised basketball hoops around my neighborhood in Chicago, I thought I’d share some photos of hoops around the neighborhood where I grew up.\u00a0 When I first started noticing improvised hoops in Chicago, I was surprised at the number of hoops that I came across.\u00a0 I shouldn’t have been. Visiting my childhood neighborhood, there are just as many hoops, they’re just all store-bought.\u00a0 It’s not that store-bought hoops are nonexistent in Chicago, but for the most part the ones I’ve noticed are usually locked up in a back yard.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, most people had their hoops adjacent to their driveway in a way that was visible, but clearly private.<\/p>\n

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My childhood hoop, after my parents gave it to the neighbors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a new subdevelopment, built on what were corn fields and cow pastures when I was a kid, I noticed that a number of the basketball hoops were set up facing the street.\u00a0 I thought this was an interesting border of public and private space, semi-formal infrastructure, erected by parents, establishing the street as play space, rather than the street being appropriated by kids.<\/p>\n

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I went home to visit my family in Central Pennsylvania this week.\u00a0 Since I’ve been taking photos of improvised basketball hoops around my neighborhood in Chicago, I thought I’d share some photos of hoops around the neighborhood where I grew up.\u00a0 When I first started noticing improvised hoops in Chicago, I was surprised at the… Continue reading Hoops in my childhood neighborhood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoops","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-Gi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}