{"id":3318,"date":"2021-08-13T07:09:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2021-08-13T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:09:45","slug":"dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"Dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s about a hundred cliches I could throw out to explain last night&#8217;s contest between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, played at the &#8220;Field of Dreams&#8221; in Dyersville, Iowa. Most of them are part of Crash Davis&#8217;s speech in Kevin Costner&#8217;s\u00a0<em>other<\/em> baseball movie,\u00a0<em>Bull Durham<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With its 162-game regular season schedule it&#8217;s tough to get up for any one particular regular season baseball game, but this one was worth it. Played before eight thousand fans and a few thousand stalks of corn, the Southsiders topped the Bronx Bombers 9-8, but that wasn&#8217;t the story. A classy affair from the start, the end could be described only as dream-like.<\/p>\n<p>Walk-off home run into the cornfield? Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>Shoeless Joe would be proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s about a hundred cliches I could throw out to explain last night&#8217;s contest between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, played at the &#8220;Field of Dreams&#8221; in Dyersville, Iowa. Most of them are part of Crash &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3318\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}