{"id":89838,"date":"2025-08-11T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89838"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:16","slug":"i-almost-feel-like-im-piling-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89838","title":{"rendered":"I Almost Feel Like I&#8217;m Piling On&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;and maybe you can call me a cynic, but when I heard NPR and the BBC hyperventilating about the first female umpire in MLB history, I have to admit I wondered if a story like this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First call ever by a female ump and she gets it horribly wrong. Everyone knew it too. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dG7ogbL754\">pic.twitter.com\/dG7ogbL754<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenShroyer1776\/status\/1954699327076487400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;was pretty much iunevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and maybe you can call me a cynic, but when I heard NPR and the BBC hyperventilating about the first female umpire in MLB history, I have to admit I wondered if a story like this&#8230; &#8230;was pretty much iunevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89838","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=89838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89839,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89838\/revisions\/89839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}