{"id":66638,"date":"2016-07-01T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66638"},"modified":"2016-07-03T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T09:30:41","slug":"for-our-baseball-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66638","title":{"rendered":"For Our Baseball Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for our baseball fans.\u00a0 IMO it&#8217;s apropos considering that today begins the 4th of July weekend.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN has been running a series this year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fictionalized <a href=\"https:\/\/1927-the-diary-of-myles-thomas.espn.com\/all\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;diary&#8221; by Yankees&#8217; pitcher Myles Thomas<\/span><\/em><\/a> concerning their 1927 season.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was a real individual.\u00a0 As various baseball sites show, he was a journeyman and not a star.\u00a0 But he&#8217;s not really the point of the series.\u00a0 The point is to provide background on the individuals involved with that team during the season.<\/p>\n<p>The diary entries appear to be based on real events.\u00a0 Some are entertaining; some are moving.\u00a0 All IMO are well-written.<\/p>\n<p>And some of them <a href=\"https:\/\/1927-the-diary-of-myles-thomas.espn.com\/devo-pisciare-855859bb25a1\"><em>are gut-splitting hilarious<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a baseball fan, IMO you could do much worse than to spend a few minutes reading each of these &#8220;diary entries&#8221; whenever they&#8217;re posted.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>And have a great 4th of July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for our baseball fans.\u00a0 IMO it&#8217;s apropos considering that today begins the 4th of &hellip; <a title=\"For Our Baseball Fans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66638\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Our Baseball Fans<\/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-66638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638","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=66638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}