{"id":3418,"date":"2010-04-05T07:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2010-04-05T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T12:09:37","slug":"opening-day-now-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/opening-day-now-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Day for a Ballgame&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3419 lazyload\" title=\"openingday\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/openingday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"693\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 465px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 465\/693;\" \/>\u2026 as Fee Dawson would have said. From one p.m. to about four p.m. I will watch the first game of the new season \u2014 my Mets playing the Marlins. Now, Ron\u2019s Phillies may be touted as National League favorites, and our starting pitching may be shaky while our bullpen\u2019s scrappy, but who knows, the Amazins may be back with a surprise this year. Above, the cover of a famous opening day scorecard \u2014 Ebbets Field 1947, the first time Jackie Robinson took the field for the Dodgers, a momentous day for baseball indeed. I borrowed it from Jeff Kisseloff\u2019s\u00a0 website (subtitled \u201cA tour through the detritus of history in my office\u201d) & you can see more of that scorecard <a href=\"http:\/\/thekisseloffcollection.com\/wordpress\/KC\/?p=577\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 as Fee Dawson would have said. From one p.m. to about four p.m. I will watch the first game of the new season \u2014 my Mets playing the Marlins. Now, Ron\u2019s Phillies may&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[292,413,426,1724,580],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-mets","tag-ebbets-field","tag-jackie-robinson","tag-jeff-kisseloff","tag-mets","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}