{"id":13122,"date":"2014-07-09T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2014-07-09T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:39:18","slug":"npb-nippon-professional-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/npb-nippon-professional-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13123\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18152419-seibu-lions-fans.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13123\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18152419-seibu-lions-fans-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"seibu lions fans\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18152419-seibu-lions-fans-800x502.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18152419-seibu-lions-fans-250x157.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18152419-seibu-lions-fans.jpg 1719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seibu Lions fans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t paid any attention to Japanese baseball this season. The main reason being that I&#8217;m not going to Japan this summer, but upon looking at the standings I see that I&#8217;m not missing much as my Seibu Lions are not doing so well in the Pacific League. My Yakult Swallows are even further off the pace in the Central League. So I will go back to ignoring professional baseball in Japan and continue to focus instead on my Oakland A&#8217;s in MLB who continue to have the best record in baseball (<a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/lets-play-four\/>after beating the Giants<\/a> each of the past two evenings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t paid any attention to Japanese baseball this season. The main reason being that I&#8217;m not going to Japan this summer, but upon looking at the standings I see that I&#8217;m not missing much as my Seibu Lions are not doing so well in the Pacific League. My Yakult Swallows are even further off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122"}],"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=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13125,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions\/13125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}