{"id":23547,"date":"2023-08-24T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:37:49","slug":"game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f7f7f7&amp;d=sept23_full_book&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=114&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">By: Alexis Raymond<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Can we take a break?\u201d I\u2019m panting from exhaustion. \u201cMy knee<br \/>\nis killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Keith turns around on his heels with his arms inflated like he has something important to say. \u201cYou need us to slow down so you can keep up, little lady?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">I grit my teeth at him. It\u2019s not like it wasn\u2019t hard for everyone else too. \u201cWhy do you guys always have to comment on how I\u2019m doing? It\u2019s getting old.\u201d The lines on the court feel like battle lines, I behind mine and the men behind theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">I\u2019d found the team by accident. A friend of a friend mentioned in passing that his basketball team, <strong>The Rockets<\/strong>, needed a woman on it so they could compete in the local league.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23548 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Game-Changer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Game-Changer.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Game-Changer-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Game-Changer-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction by By Alexis Raymond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[1287],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-september-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23550,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions\/23550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}