{"id":525,"date":"2004-01-30T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=525"},"modified":"2004-01-30T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T09:05:43","slug":"take-me-out-to-the-ballbame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/take-me-out-to-the-ballbame\/","title":{"rendered":"Take me out to the ballbame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny about how everybody whines about horse-race coverage of the elections and everybody wishes it would go away. Problem is: it can&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<P>Say you tune in to a ballgame while you&#8217;re channel surfing. You see a closeup of one of your favorite players so you pause for a minute to catch a bit of the action. No force on earth is powerful enough to prevent your brain from wondering: so, what&#8217;s the score?<br \/>\n<P>In any competition the first question will always be: who&#8217;s winning?  And the next question will be, how come?<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;d love to hear suggestions for covering a competition without keeping score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny about how everybody whines about horse-race coverage of the elections and everybody wishes it would go away. Problem is: it can&#8217;t. Say you tune in to a ballgame while you&#8217;re channel surfing. You see a closeup of one&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/take-me-out-to-the-ballbame\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}