{"id":15827,"date":"2021-07-23T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=15827"},"modified":"2021-07-23T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:35:00","slug":"the-new-england-take-downtown-queen-city-basketball-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=15827","title":{"rendered":"The New England Take: Downtown Queen City Basketball Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15828 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Players jumping for the basketball on the court\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2842.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/>A. J. hit the road and checked out the Downtown Queen City Basketball Jam on July 17th in Manchester&#8217;s Pulaski Park. He spoke with organizers Rob Azevedo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ManchesterBallers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Manchester Baller&#8217;s Association<\/a>&#8216;s Carl Doucet, as well as Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig. The event featured several games, live music, art, and food trucks, showing the community coming together as the world celebrates reopening after COVID-19. The event was presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GSMwithRobAzevedo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Granite State of Mind<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ManchesterBallers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Manchester Baller&#8217;s Association<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intownmanchester.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Intown Manchester<\/a>. He then spoke with Kyle Chumas of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnh.org\">Families in Transition<\/a> about their work and ways people can help their important work for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Get the back episodes, watch the videos, and more at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewenglandtake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thenewenglandtake.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the show on <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/newenglandtake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/newenglandtake<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newenglandtake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/newenglandtake<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/thenewenglandtake\/embed\/episodes\/Downtown-Queen-City-Basketball-Jam-e14ju0g\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. J. hit the road and checked out the Downtown Queen City Basketball Jam on July 17th in Manchester&#8217;s Pulaski Park. He spoke with organizers Rob Azevedo and Manchester Baller&#8217;s Association&#8216;s Carl Doucet, as well as Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig. The event featured several games, live music, art, and food trucks, showing the community coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The New England Take: Downtown Queen City Basketball Jam","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-new-england-take"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_2843.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15849,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions\/15849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}