{"id":13451,"date":"2014-10-09T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13451"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:18:01","slug":"hiroshima-carp-begin-postseason-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/hiroshima-carp-begin-postseason-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Carp begin postseason play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13452\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/136_9636-fred-lewis-hiroshima-carp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13452\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/136_9636-fred-lewis-hiroshima-carp-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"fred lewis hiroshima carp\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/136_9636-fred-lewis-hiroshima-carp-800x490.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/136_9636-fred-lewis-hiroshima-carp-250x153.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/136_9636-fred-lewis-hiroshima-carp.jpg 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lewis of the Hiroshima Carp loses his bat in a 2013 game<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Central League Climax Series First Stage begins this weekend in Japan. The Swallows are my Central League team, but they had a typical Swallows season and ended up in the basement. My next favorite team in the CL is Hiroshima, in large part because of the wonderful Carp fans I sat next to last summer. They will be matched up with the Tigers in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Lewis, by the way, only lasted one season for the Carp. Although he played in 79 games for Hiroshima last year, he hit just .268 with only 4 home runs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central League Climax Series First Stage begins this weekend in Japan. The Swallows are my Central League team, but they had a typical Swallows season and ended up in the basement. My next favorite team in the CL is Hiroshima, in large part because of the wonderful Carp fans I sat next to last [&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":[82,455,419,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451"}],"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=13451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13453,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions\/13453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}