{"id":16197,"date":"2012-09-05T18:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16197"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:21:26","slug":"quidditch-team-plays-despite-weather-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16197","title":{"rendered":"Quidditch team plays despite weather conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one I didn&#8217;t see coming. \u00a0Picked up my alumi magazine (how do they always know where I am) to discover that my modest teacher&#8217;s college turned into Ball State University is #1 in&#8230;wait for it&#8230;quidditch! \u00a0That&#8217;s right, quidditch.<\/p>\n<p>These are games in 2012. \u00a0Gosh, gee whillikers, go Horcrux! \u00a0That&#8217;s the team name.<\/p>\n<h3>RECENT GAMES<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Ball State University \u00a0260<\/p>\n<p>Miami University of Ohio \u00a020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ball State University \u00a0110<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Michigan University \u00a040<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ball State University \u00a0120<\/p>\n<p>TCS Chimeras \u00a00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ball State University \u00a0140<\/p>\n<p>Jetpack Ninja Dinosaurs \u00a050<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ball State University \u00a0120<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Michigan University \u00a030<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Turns out there is a national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcupquidditch.com\/about.php\">Quidditch Championship<\/a>, the first was in 2007 in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Irony was not a real big component of campus life at Ball State when I was there in the late 60&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s there now. \u00a0Look at this.<\/p>\n<h1>Quidditch team plays despite weather conditions<!--more--><\/h1>\n<h2>Ball State\u2019s team finishes second at home tournament<\/h2>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsudailynews.com\/search?q=author:%22Dylan%20Buell%22&amp;fq=page:2.11224&amp;ifByAuthor=true\">Dylan Buell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, April 11, 2011<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Updated:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, April 11, 2011 03:04<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsudailynews.com\/features\/quidditch-team-plays-despite-weather-conditions-1.2537966\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo: DN PHOTO DYLAN BUELL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bsudailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2537749!\/image\/685465342.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_260\/685465342.jpg\" alt=\"0411 web1\/Quidditch1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>DN PHOTO DYLAN BUELL<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freshman John Lenderts (wearing the green headband) watches the Quaffle soar through the hoop to score for the Ball State Horcruxes. In a tournament hosted by Ball State and Purdue, Ball State managed to take second place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Despite the chaotic Indiana weather, the Ball State Horcruxes took on the Illinois State Redbirds for an early win but a defeat in the second match of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The old alma mater has, for the first time in a long time, made this alum proud. \u00a0Plus, when I read this article I discovered another one about protests against Chick-Fil-A. \u00a0Go, guys and gals. \u00a0Get&#8217;em.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon Here&#8217;s one I didn&#8217;t see coming. \u00a0Picked up my alumi magazine (how do they always know where I am) to discover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quidditch team plays despite weather conditions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39884,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions\/39884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}