{"id":3744,"date":"2022-08-12T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:03:51","slug":"3744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Still dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things happened in the spring of 1989, just a few weeks apart as a matter of fact.<br \/>\nApril 3, 1989\u2026 Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season. This was the day I became obsessed with sports, aided by a young Ken Griffey Jr. and these things called baseball cards.<br \/>\nMay 5, 1989\u2026 the movie\u00a0<em>Field of Dreams\u00a0<\/em>opens. Now\u00a0<em>everyone\u00a0<\/em>is a baseball fan.<br \/>\nAnd Griffey? Still doing things. Still around to have a catch with the old man.<br \/>\nKudos to the folks at the \u201creal\u201d Field of Dreams for setting that up for us to see last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things happened in the spring of 1989, just a few weeks apart as a matter of fact. April 3, 1989\u2026 Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season. This was the day I became obsessed with sports, aided by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3744\">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-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","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=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}