{"id":596,"date":"2014-10-25T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2014-10-25T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:38:23","slug":"watching-the-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

To thank me for doing a great job on a gruelling project at work, I was offered tickets to see the Red Sox play at Fenway.\u00a0 I don’t normally watch sports but hey, game on!\u00a0 We live so close I should watch at least one game.\u00a0 The game was played back on September 23.<\/p>\n

I took my mother-in-law Joan, because she’s a fan-in-the-literal-fanatic-sense of the Sox.\u00a0 It was also a way to thank her for all the times she’s helped us out.\u00a0 She thought it was a hoot.<\/p>\n

\"Fenway<\/a>
Fenway, mid-game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had an ‘oh-thats-so-quaint’ moment when I realized that the score board along the back of the field is updated by hand.\u00a0 There’s a jumbotron too, but in between innings some dude goes out and hangs little panels on the scoreboard to provide scores for other games being played nationally.\u00a0 The current score is updated by hand, too, but they stay inside to do that.<\/p>\n

The Sox lost, in the end, but Joan and I had a great time!\u00a0 I’m planning to take the girls next year for an afternoon game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To thank me for doing a great job on a gruelling project at work, I was offered tickets to see the Red Sox play at Fenway.\u00a0 I don’t normally watch sports but hey, game on!\u00a0 We live so close I should watch at least one game.\u00a0 The game was played back on September 23. I … Continue reading “Watching the Sox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-red-sox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-9C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}