{"id":11127,"date":"2013-04-28T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:43:13","slug":"omar-vizquel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/omar-vizquel\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Vizquel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11128\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/126_5817-omar-vizquel-toronto-blue-jays.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11128\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/126_5817-omar-vizquel-toronto-blue-jays-800x677.jpg\" alt=\"omar vizquel toronto blue jays 2012\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/126_5817-omar-vizquel-toronto-blue-jays-800x677.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/126_5817-omar-vizquel-toronto-blue-jays-250x211.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/126_5817-omar-vizquel-toronto-blue-jays.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Vizquel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I meant to post something about Omar Vizquel near the end of the 2012 baseball season, just before he retired,  but I forgot that I had watched him play twice (once in Oakland and once in Boston) last year until this photo came up as my random, desktop image of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Omar is actually older than me. With his retirement I became older than every active MLB player which makes me feel very old. As a kid I remember thinking how old the players all were. Now they all seem so young. What happened?<\/p>\n<p>Vizquel had some great years between 1992 and 2006, winning 11 Gold Gloves during that stretch. He finished his career with nearly 3,000 hits and over 400 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo was taken at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/fenway-park\/>Boston&#8217;s Fenway Park<\/a> during its 100-year anniversary year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to post something about Omar Vizquel near the end of the 2012 baseball season, just before he retired, but I forgot that I had watched him play twice (once in Oakland and once in Boston) last year until this photo came up as my random, desktop image of the day. Omar is actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[395,82,376,382,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127"}],"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=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}