{"id":59777,"date":"2015-05-12T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59777"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:15:45","slug":"happy-90th-mr-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59777","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th, Mr. B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 90th birthday of a gentleman named Lawrence Peter Berra.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still with us.<\/p>\n<p>If the name doesn&#8217;t ring a bell &#8211; maybe that&#8217;s because most people know him by his nickname vice his given name. That nickname? &#8220;Yogi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Berra&#8217;s baseball career really needs no rehashing among baseball fans.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and is among the most recognizable and well-known people ever to play the sport.\u00a0 But ESPN <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/sweetspot\/post\/_\/id\/58047\/happy-90th-birthday-yogi-berra\">has a short article today<\/a> with some of Berra&#8217;s (alleged) quotes, quotes about him, and a brief career highlight or two.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a look IMO.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yes:\u00a0 Berra is also a vet.\u00a0 He served in the Navy as a gunner&#8217;s mate during World War II.\u00a0 He was one of the crew of the <em>USS Bayfield<\/em> during D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 90th, Mr. Berra.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 90th birthday of a gentleman named Lawrence Peter Berra.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still with us. &hellip; <a title=\"Happy 90th, Mr. B\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59777\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 90th, Mr. B<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}