{"id":3382,"date":"2021-10-08T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:26:55","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorite anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back before we talked about WARs, launch angles, and exit velocities a pitcher once threw a perfect game in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>His name was Don Larsen, and for the rest of his life (he died last year) he signed his name &#8220;Don Larsen, 10-8-56.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 65th anniversary of Larsen&#8217;s magical day, which brought the Yankees one step closer to winning their first championship in three years. (For the Yanks of the 1950s that was a\u00a0<em>drought<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>For a further discussion, listen to this week&#8217;s broadcast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/9299374\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back before we talked about WARs, launch angles, and exit velocities a pitcher once threw a perfect game in the World Series. His name was Don Larsen, and for the rest of his life (he died last year) he signed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3382\">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-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}