{"id":12496,"date":"2016-04-14T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2016-04-14T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:00:38","slug":"look-what-george-bush-sr-did-at-a-houston-astros-game-from-his-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2016\/04\/look-what-george-bush-sr-did-at-a-houston-astros-game-from-his-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Look what George Bush Sr. did at a Houston Astros game&#8230; from his wheelchair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/520726262\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 77.777778% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/520726262?et=okWALc4PRYhZ6pxNBk5xtw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=MeWR0Lk_sgZi3w7qnS-8LHX0FQpDIrZwV0OqYINHS8M=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"462\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>George H.W. Bush inspired baseball fans everywhere when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a recent Houston Astros game from his wheelchair.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watch how sweet this is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZNxGBfaFgA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s so awesome! At 91 years old, he is still so full of life and doesn\u2019t let age, ability, or his wheelchair stand in his way of enjoying every moment. How inspirational!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is the same man who marked his 90th by going skydiving! (And his 85th, and his 80th, and his 75th!) He\u2019s so cute, he even once joked on Twitter about being such a dare devil after he took a little tumble at home:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who knew jumping out of planes was safer than getting out of bed? 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