{"id":1185,"date":"2025-08-20T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:22:32","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3d-book-cover.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3d-book-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1396\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1960s Belleview, sixth graders Bobby Pisano and Kathy Cunningham fall in love\u2014with basketball and, eventually, each other. When Kathy challenges Bobby to a park showdown, she proves girls can play too. Together, they sharpen their skills at the YMCA, develop a deep bond, and rise as unstoppable high school stars. With the support of loyal friends, passionate coaches, and sheer grit, they lead their teams to state glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>A New Jersey Basketball Story<\/em><\/strong> is a heartfelt story of talent, determination, teamwork, and young love\u2014where sweat, sacrifice, and belief unite a town and change lives. Because champions aren\u2019t born\u2014they\u2019re made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-63375db1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/excerpt-2\/\" style=\"border-radius:3px;font-size:15px\"><strong>READ AN EXCERPT<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/865141-a-new-jersey-basketball-story\" style=\"border-radius:3px;font-size:15px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ORDER A COPY NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960s Belleview, sixth graders Bobby Pisano and Kathy Cunningham fall in love\u2014with basketball and, eventually, each other. When Kathy challenges Bobby to a park showdown, she proves girls can play too. Together, they sharpen their skills at the YMCA, develop a deep bond, and rise as unstoppable high school stars. With the support of &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/about-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1185","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/865141\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}