{"id":3993,"date":"2009-01-15T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2009-05-30T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:01:43","slug":"finally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the NHL took a huge step in the right direction, holding a hockey game outdoors at Wrigley Field,\u00a0 Although the game was a great idea, and held at a near-sacred American monument, it couldn&#8217;t overcome one crucial problem; it was hockey.\u00a0 I mean, who cares?<\/p>\n<p>But we have another step in the right direction to look forward to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/jayweiner\/2009\/01\/14\/5858\/those_wild_wacky_saints_are_at_it_again_outdoor_baseball_in_february#10-5858\">Moutdoor baseball in February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on February 28, and it&#8217;s the Saints, natch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some former and current Saints players will go to bat against a team of unnamed celebrities, sure to be bundled up.Saints spokesman Sean Aronson said the baseball field&#8217;s base lines will be shoveled, but all the other snow will stay on the field . . . whereever those piles may be.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities will begin at 1:30 p.m. with \u2014 what else? \u2014 tailgating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s for charity, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the NHL took a huge step in the right direction, holding a hockey game outdoors at Wrigley Field,\u00a0 Although the game was a great idea, and held at a near-sacred American monument, it couldn&#8217;t overcome one crucial problem; it was hockey.\u00a0 I mean, who cares? But we have another step in the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","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=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}