{"id":6281,"date":"2010-09-14T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2010-08-01T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T23:47:12","slug":"tony-blanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/tony-blanco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blanco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040154trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040154trim-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"abe tokyo giants catcher\" title=\"henry blanco chunichi dragons\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040154trim-800x441.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040154trim-250x137.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040154trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a follow up to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/michihiro-ogasawara-%e5%b0%8f%e7%ac%a0%e5%8e%9f-%e9%81%93%e5%a4%a7\/>yesterday&#8217;s entry<\/a>, with the Giants in the lead after one inning, Tony Blanco comes to the plate for the Dragons. He takes three quick balls (ball 3 pictured above) so I set my camera down thinking he would be taking the fourth pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Not so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040156trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040156trim-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"Shinnosuke Abe tokyo giants\" title=\"tony blanco\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040156trim-800x482.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040156trim-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040156trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He swings at the 3-0 fastball down the middle and hits it out of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Which means&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040168trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040168trim-800x641.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo giants giveaway\" title=\"free mcdonald&#039;s big mac\" width=\"800\" height=\"641\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040168trim-800x641.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040168trim-250x200.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P1040168trim.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We won free Big Macs!<\/p>\n<p>Except at that point I read the fine print to find out that the offer is good from August 6 until September 19, and we were leaving Japan on August 3. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I asked the lady in front of me if she liked Big Macs. She did, so I gave her our winning tickets. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had a Big Mac, and it has been at least 20 years since I&#8217;ve tried a McDonald&#8217;s hamburger. Needless to say, I&#8217;m not that disappointed in missing out on this offer. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to yesterday&#8217;s entry, with the Giants in the lead after one inning, Tony Blanco comes to the plate for the Dragons. He takes three quick balls (ball 3 pictured above) so I set my camera down thinking he would be taking the fourth pitch. Not so. He swings at the 3-0 [&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":[82,102,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281"}],"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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}