{"id":7725,"date":"2010-07-26T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:32:59","slug":"hooverball-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/hooverball-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooverball Rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Hooverball2.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7745\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Hooverball2.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>Looking for a uniquely Iowa activity this summer? The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hooverassociation.org\/newsevents\/hooverball.php\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Hooverball National Championships<\/a><\/strong> will be Saturday, August 7th.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, Hooverball is similar to volleyball and\u00a0played with a four or six\u00a0pound medicine ball (women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s versions respectively).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Catching one of these balls is like catching\u00a0a bag of concrete mix dropped off a freeway overpass,&#8221; according to CBS Sunday Morning. \u00a0The speed and\u00a0grueling nature\u00a0of the game made it\u00a0a fast and efficient way to exercise all one&#8217;s muscles, which was the appeal for President Hoover and his doctor. During his presidency, Hoover lost 25 pounds which they attributed to his regular morning Hooverball games.<\/p>\n<p>Teams were made up of Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices. Every day but Sunday, they played on the front\u00a0lawn unless the weather drove them down to the White House basement.<\/p>\n<p>West Branch may be the only town in the world with it&#8217;s own Hoover-Ball courts on\u00a0 Main Street. Other Hooverfest activities are fireworks at dusk, a band, food tents and a beer tent.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Hoover in the recent biography, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2111840\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert Hoover<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by William Leuchtenburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hooverassociation.org\/newsevents\/hooverball.php\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a uniquely Iowa activity this summer? The 2010 Hooverball National Championships will be Saturday, August 7th. For the uninitiated, Hooverball is similar to volleyball and\u00a0played with a four or six\u00a0pound medicine ball (women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s versions respectively). &#8220;Catching one of these balls is like catching\u00a0a bag of concrete<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/hooverball-rocks\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[10,1],"tags":[197,1291,1292,179],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-exercise","tag-herbert-hoover","tag-hooverball","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-20B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7748,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}