Sonny participated in the middle school wrasslin\u2019 championship last week-end.\u00a0 Side Note: We call wrestling \u201cwrasslin\u2019\u201d because calling wrestling \u201cwrasslin\u2019\u201d funnies things up a bit.\u00a0 Trust me when I say wrasslin\u2019 desperately needs a little funny-ing up.<\/p>\n
But even if it\u2019s not all hardy har har, wrasslin\u2019 is a gentlemanly and brave sport.<\/p>\n
Gentlemanly because the opponents shake hands before the match. Then afterwards, they shake hands again and also with their opponent\u2019s coaches.\u00a0 All the hands wagging in the air must make it easier for everyone to hold back the tears after a loss.<\/p>\n
And brave because once you get to be a certain age, you have to wear a singlet. And everyone knows that this is the singlet closest thing to being naked in public while wearing short-like items that you can get.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
To make matters worse (for me, not Sonny, since he\u2019s the brave wrassler in this story) they then force the wrasslers to walk around with their arms bare and their WEIGHT written on their BICEPS!!<\/p>\n
If that doesn\u2019t sound like some awful sorority hazing thing that leaves everyone crying no wonder why there\u2019s so much crying <\/em>I don\u2019t know what does.\u00a0 And?\u00a0 They write the wrassler\u2019s weight in permanent marker so sometimes Sonny will go three, four, five days with his weight proudly proclaimed on his bicep until it finally fades.\u00a0 The school shirt usually covers it up, but even so.\u00a0 Nightmare much?\u00a0 Imagine if you had to go out in public with your weight on your arm?!\u00a0 If it were me, I\u2019d spend the whole day in a public bathroom stall gnawing on my fingernails or something.<\/p>\n Anyway, Sonny won! Sonny won 1st<\/sup> place in the \u201cexperienced\u201d wrasslin\u2019 division.\u00a0 How cool is that?!\u00a0 We are super proud of him \u2013 not only because some of the kids he wrassles sound like foghorns and have back acne while Sonny still gets mistaken for his sister on the phone \u2013 but also because he brings gentlemanly and brave to every match he\u2019s in.\u00a0 He also brings sweaty-head-that-smells-like-feet-afterwards, but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny participated in the middle school wrasslin\u2019 championship last week-end.\u00a0 Side Note: We call wrestling \u201cwrasslin\u2019\u201d because calling wrestling \u201cwrasslin\u2019\u201d funnies things up a bit.\u00a0 Trust me when I say wrasslin\u2019 desperately needs a little funny-ing up. But even if it\u2019s not all hardy har har, wrasslin\u2019 is a gentlemanly and brave sport. Gentlemanly because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}