{"id":9697,"date":"2012-07-02T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2012-07-01T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:11:04","slug":"michael-bourn-all-star-game-2012-final-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/michael-bourn-all-star-game-2012-final-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bourn &#8211; All-Star Game 2012 Final Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9698\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_3951-home-run-catch-at-yankee-stadium.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9698\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_3951-home-run-catch-at-yankee-stadium-574x800.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bourn robs Jayson Nix\" title=\"home run catch at yankee stadium\" width=\"574\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_3951-home-run-catch-at-yankee-stadium-574x800.jpg 574w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_3951-home-run-catch-at-yankee-stadium-179x250.jpg 179w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/126_3951-home-run-catch-at-yankee-stadium.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bourn robs Jayson Nix of a possible home run at Yankee Stadium<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball has held a &#8220;final vote&#8221; for the past 10 years, basically allowing fans to pick a player deserving to be on the team who missed the cut in the initial voting process to play in the All-Star Game. This year&#8217;s game is next week and Michael Bourn of the Atlanta Braves didn&#8217;t make the initial cut. In my opinion, he is the clear favorite to win the final vote contest for the National League.<\/p>\n<p>I took today&#8217;s photo a couple weeks ago at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/06\/yankee-stadium-panorama\/>Yankee Stadium<\/a> when Bourn made an absolutely fabulous catch to kill a Yankee rally. After making this catch he almost threw out the runner on first as well.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t watch ESPN after the game, but this had to be the #1 web gem of the night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball has held a &#8220;final vote&#8221; for the past 10 years, basically allowing fans to pick a player deserving to be on the team who missed the cut in the initial voting process to play in the All-Star Game. This year&#8217;s game is next week and Michael Bourn of the Atlanta Braves didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[395,82,410,382,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697"}],"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=9697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9700,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}