{"id":8688,"date":"2010-06-22T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/theyre-not-that-easy-to-hit-john-said\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:54:10","slug":"theyre-not-that-easy-to-hit-john-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/theyre-not-that-easy-to-hit-john-said\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re not that easy to hit,&#8221; John said."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/93036\/Theyre-not-that-easy-to-hit-John-said'>&#8220;They&#8217;re not that easy to hit,&#8221; John said.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Last week, before Jack McDonald died, he told his son, Toronto Blue Jays  utility infielder John McDonald (14 home runs in a 12 year professional  career), to hit a home run for him when he went back to the team.  &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not that easy to hit,&rdquo; John said. <\/p>\n<p> John rejoined his team and got his first at-bat in the ninth inning this  past Sunday. <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20100620&amp;content_id=11389146&amp;vkey=recap&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=mlb\" target=\"_blank\">Father&rsquo;s  Day<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not that easy to hit,&#8221; John said. Last week, before Jack McDonald died, he told his son, Toronto Blue Jays utility infielder John McDonald (14 home runs in a 12 year professional career), to hit a home run for him when he went back to the team. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not that easy to hit,&rdquo; John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/theyre-not-that-easy-to-hit-john-said\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;They&#8217;re not that easy to hit,&#8221; John said.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}