{"id":20054,"date":"2011-05-17T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2011-05-17T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:21:20","slug":"harmon-killebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20054","title":{"rendered":"Harmon Killebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smell of fresh-cut grass.<\/p>\n

A whiff of the “hops” from my Dad’s freshly-opened Hamm’s, and the smell of baked beans coming from the kitchen.<\/p>\n

That hot-tar smell you get in small towns on brutally warm days, when the sun’s been beating down all day – hot tar and dust from the alley, mixing with lilacs from the back hedge as the day finally starts to cool down.<\/p>\n

And the crackling from Dad’s old portable transistor radio, as Herb Carneal called a Twins game on WCCO (rebroadcast on KEYJ), calling out names I can still practically recite in batting order; Rod Carew, Tony Oliva, Bob Allison, C\u00e9sar Tovar,\u00a0Jim Holt, Greg Nettles, Leo Carde\u00f1as…<\/p>\n

…and of course Harmon Killebrew.<\/p>\n

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All, each of them inseparably, are part of remembering summer when I was a little kid.<\/p>\n

Killebrew, the Twins’ first Hall-of-Famer, as you’ve heard, passed away this morning at age 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smell of fresh-cut grass. A whiff of the “hops” from my Dad’s freshly-opened Hamm’s, and the smell of baked beans coming from the kitchen. That hot-tar smell you get in small towns on brutally warm days, when the sun’s been beating down all day – hot tar and dust from the alley, mixing with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20060,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/20060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}