{"id":1079,"date":"2008-10-14T02:29:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2008-10-13T21:35:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:35:32","slug":"matt-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/matt-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3273.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1080\" title=\"miguel Tejada and matt stairs\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3273.jpg 761w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_3273-142x150.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned a couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Blue Jays game in Toronto last summer. The above photo is of two former Oakland A&#8217;s players (as the A&#8217;s have been &#8220;my team&#8221; since the 70s). <\/p>\n<p>Miguel Tejada and Matt Stairs are shown here in different uniforms talking about their old glory days in Oakland. Stairs had just hit a double and Tejada was playing short. Had Tejada pulled a hidden ball trick he could have tagged Stairs out!<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this season and Matt Stairs finds himself on the Phillies. Last night he crushed a ball in Los Angeles for a two run homer to give the Phillies a 3 games to 1 lead over the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned a couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Blue Jays game in Toronto last summer. The above photo is of two former Oakland A&#8217;s players (as the A&#8217;s have been &#8220;my team&#8221; since the 70s). Miguel Tejada and Matt Stairs are shown here in different uniforms talking about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}