{"id":11847,"date":"2013-10-01T07:24:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2013-10-01T06:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:23:31","slug":"rounding-third-and-heading-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/rounding-third-and-heading-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounding third and heading for home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11848\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/137_1849-korean-baseball-home-run-rounding-third-wyverns.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11848\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/137_1849-korean-baseball-home-run-rounding-third-wyverns-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"korean baseball home run rounding third wyverns Jeong Keun-Woo \uc815\uadfc\uc6b0\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/137_1849-korean-baseball-home-run-rounding-third-wyverns-800x477.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/137_1849-korean-baseball-home-run-rounding-third-wyverns-250x149.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/137_1849-korean-baseball-home-run-rounding-third-wyverns.jpg 1809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SK Wyverns&#8217; player rounds third, salutes the third base coach, and heads for home after hitting a home run<\/p><\/div>\n<p>October begins, and with it comes the grand finale in most professional baseball leagues. My A&#8217;s are still alive and well in the major leagues. My KIA Tigers in Korea tanked it big time. They were contenders a week or two after I arrived in Gwangju, but have won very few games since. The SK Wyverns lost to the Lotte Giants <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/sajik-baseball-stadium-%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%81%EC%95%BC%EA%B5%AC%EC%9E%A5\/>the night I saw this game<\/a> despite this home run.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs are set for the 2013 Korean Professional Baseball (KPB) postseason, and they will not include the Tigers, Giants, or Wyverns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October begins, and with it comes the grand finale in most professional baseball leagues. My A&#8217;s are still alive and well in the major leagues. My KIA Tigers in Korea tanked it big time. They were contenders a week or two after I arrived in Gwangju, but have won very few games since. The SK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[436],"tags":[82,471,419,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847"}],"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=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11920,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}