{"id":1139,"date":"2026-09-12T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:09:37","slug":"cheer-is-life-but-what-about-the-rest-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/2026\/09\/12\/cheer-is-life-but-what-about-the-rest-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"CHEER IS LIFE\u2026 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHEER IS LIFE\u2026 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF IT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cheer<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cheerleading is an AMAZING sport, activity, community, and\u2014let\u2019s face it\u2014sometimes a complete lifestyle choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes time, dedication, energy, money, weekends, road trips, hotel rooms, hairspray, snacks, approximately seventeen million bobby pins\u2026 and an absolutely unreasonable amount of GLITTER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between practices, competitions, traveling, fundraising, team events, pinning, recovering from competitions, and trying to remember where you put that one bow you swore was right there\u2026 cheer can happily consume a pretty impressive chunk of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But somehow, every once in a while, something strange happens\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FREE TIME APPEARS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now we\u2019re curious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re not at practice, heading to a competition, talking about cheer, watching cheer, packing for cheer, unpacking from cheer, or finding glitter in places where glitter has absolutely no business being\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do YOU do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you artistic or crafty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reader?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A gamer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into another sport?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music or dance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horses or animals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional-level movie watcher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitive napper?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or do you have a completely unexpected hobby that has NOTHING to do with cheer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spend so much time celebrating what makes everyone part of the cheer world that sometimes we forget to ask what makes everyone interesting outside of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So tell us\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the bows come out and the cheer shoes come off, what do you LOVE doing with your free time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, collecting cheer pins probably still counts as cheer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHEER IS LIFE\u2026 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF IT? Cheerleading is an AMAZING sport, activity, community, and\u2014let\u2019s face it\u2014sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaguelyveronica.com\/v-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}