{"id":11234,"date":"2014-03-31T23:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2014-04-01T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:30:28","slug":"opening-day-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/opening-day-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The satisfaction of watching Chicago lose is nearly as strong as watching St. Louis win; alas, both of those things happened on 2014&#8217;s Opening Day!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First reg season replay-challenge in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLB<\/a> history stands as an out against the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cubs<\/a> &#8211; like that, poof, 2014 World Series hopes are dashed.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nick normal (@nicknormal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicknormal\/status\/450729422187147265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eventually make that <em>two <\/em> challenges &#8211; one challenge by, one challenge against, and they lost both.<\/p>\n<p>Later:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry I missed the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cardinals<\/a> first pitch but I had to wait around to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cubs<\/a> lose &#8211; it&#39;s so satisfying to see that team fail.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nick normal (@nicknormal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicknormal\/status\/450732862049120256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The satisfaction of watching Chicago lose is nearly as strong as watching St. Louis win; alas, both of those things happened on 2014&#8217;s Opening Day! First reg season replay-challenge in @MLB history stands as an out against the @Cubs &#8211; like that, poof, 2014 World Series hopes are dashed. &mdash; nick normal (@nicknormal) March 31, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[270,908],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunk.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2Vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}