{"id":943,"date":"2008-09-21T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=943"},"modified":"2008-10-06T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T04:28:02","slug":"will-this-be-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/will-this-be-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this be the year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2977trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-944\" title=\"ted lilly chicago cubs\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2977trim-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2977trim-800x513.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2977trim-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2977trim.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you watch yesterday&#8217;s game? The above picture almost looks like it came from that game (since Ted Lilly is on the mound as he was yesterday), but a careful look at the background shows Rickey Henderson in a Mets uniform coaching first base. The Cubs clinched their division title yesterday against the Cardinals&#8211;not the Mets. I took this picture <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/cubs-win\/>last summer when I was in Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are looking to win their first World Series in about a hundred years. They&#8217;ve completed step one. Now they&#8217;ve just got to get past three more teams&#8211;easier said than done. But this year seems promising. It has a little extra magic that past Cubs playoff teams didn&#8217;t seem to have.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you watch yesterday&#8217;s game? The above picture almost looks like it came from that game (since Ted Lilly is on the mound as he was yesterday), but a careful look at the background shows Rickey Henderson in a Mets uniform coaching first base. The Cubs clinched their division title yesterday against the Cardinals&#8211;not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,112,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}