{"id":188660,"date":"2010-08-17T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/normally-i-dont-have-much-to-say-about-ball-players-who-retired-before-i-was-born\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:54:00","slug":"normally-i-dont-have-much-to-say-about-ball-players-who-retired-before-i-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/normally-i-dont-have-much-to-say-about-ball-players-who-retired-before-i-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Normally, I Don&#8217;t Have Much to Say About Ball Players Who Retired Before I Was Born\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I have to note it that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2010\/08\/bobby_thomson_immortalized_by.html\">Bobby Thompson has died<\/a>, he was 86.<\/p>\n<p>Who was Mr. Thompson?  He (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>)is the Hall of Fame outfielder who (\/<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>) hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shot_Heard_Around_the_World_%28baseball%29\">shot heard round the world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"400\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lrI7dVj90zs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lrI7dVj90zs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>If you are an American, you should know this one even if you don&#8217;t know jack about Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>I have to guess that <span>Olbermann<\/span> will comment on this tonight, after all, how can he not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I have to note it that Bobby Thompson has died, he was 86. Who was Mr. Thompson? He (on edit)is the Hall of Fame outfielder who (\/on edit) hit the shot heard round the world: If you are an American, you should know this one even if you don&#8217;t know jack about Baseball. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,1057,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-sports","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}