{"id":92,"date":"2009-08-02T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-08-03T01:40:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T05:40:01","slug":"joe-bowler-is-the-king-of-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; is the King of Bowling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found these pics in the March 1962 issue of BOWLING magazine. They&#8217;re from the ABC Convention of that year in Des Moines, Iowa. While he wears a crown, the title of\u00a0 &#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; was bestowed upon Oscar Butts, seen in these pictures regally attired and in the company of what appears to be bowling Princesses. And or course, theres a picture of Iowa&#8217;s\u00a0 Governor Norman Erbe welcoming the Bowlers to the convention. Gov. Erbe was a pinboy in his younger days&#8230; he must&#8217;ve known plenty about setting &#8217;em up only to watch &#8217;em get knocked down again.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-92 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-96\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-96'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221;goes for the spare\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-97\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-97'>\n\t\t\t\tGov. Erbe, former pinboy\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-95\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-95'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; gets his crown and cape\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image0-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-98\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-98'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; and his court\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found these pics in the March 1962 issue of BOWLING magazine. They&#8217;re from the ABC Convention of that year in Des Moines, Iowa. While he wears a crown, the title of\u00a0 &#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; was bestowed upon Oscar Butts, seen in these pictures regally attired and in the company of what appears to be bowling Princesses. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Joe Bowler&#8221; is the King of Bowling&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,18,20,19,21,23],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-like-stuff","tag-abc","tag-bowling","tag-joe-bowler","tag-oscar-butts","tag-pinboy","tag-princesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greendoch.com\/finds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}