{"id":666,"date":"2015-04-29T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:36:04","slug":"when-a-baseball-game-is-played-in-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"When a baseball game is played in a forest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chicago White Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles this afternoon at Camden Yards you&#8217;ll notice something unusual in the stands. Not a single patron. Yeah. Apparently they&#8217;re playing the game in front of custodians and the hot dog guy. I&#8217;ve played that gig before, but not as a highly-paid professional athlete.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll make up games for rain but not for public riots. I don&#8217;t really understand the rationale behind playing a game in an empty ballpark but you can be damn sure I&#8217;m going to be watching with interest later today. Really today&#8217;s post was so I could note this occasion and be able to search for it in the futur. The day this really did happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chicago White Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles this afternoon at Camden Yards you&#8217;ll notice something unusual in the stands. Not a single patron. Yeah. Apparently they&#8217;re playing the game in front of custodians and the hot dog &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=666\">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-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}