{"id":9821,"date":"2012-07-26T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:34:44","slug":"the-as-are-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/the-as-are-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The A&#8217;s are on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/124_8887-RAW-josh-reddick-oakland-as.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/124_8887-RAW-josh-reddick-oakland-as-472x800.jpg\" alt=\"oakland athletics josh reddick #16\" title=\"josh reddick oakland a&#039;s\" width=\"472\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/124_8887-RAW-josh-reddick-oakland-as-472x800.jpg 472w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/124_8887-RAW-josh-reddick-oakland-as-147x250.jpg 147w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/124_8887-RAW-josh-reddick-oakland-as.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Oakland A&#8217;s have been crazy good this past month, moving from playing under .500 baseball to the third best record in the American League. They have, by far, the best record in baseball during July. Last night their offense came to life in Toronto, beating the Blue Jays 16-0. Next Saturday I&#8217;m going to see them in Oakland against the very same Toronto Blue Jays. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of Josh Reddick, who has been one of the few bright spots in Oakland&#8217;s offense. I took this back in April in Anaheim. Reddick is currently slugging more than 50 points above his career average, which is saying a lot since he has moved from hitter-friendly <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/fenway-park-panorama\/>Fenway Park<\/a> to the pitching heaven of Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Oakland A&#8217;s have been crazy good this past month, moving from playing under .500 baseball to the third best record in the American League. They have, by far, the best record in baseball during July. Last night their offense came to life in Toronto, beating the Blue Jays 16-0. Next Saturday I&#8217;m going to [&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":[395,82,382,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821"}],"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=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}