{"id":193,"date":"2008-10-01T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-10-01T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:03:39","slug":"wish-i-had-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Wish I had cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the Wire ended, my cable envy faded.  But I hear about interviews like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/01\/sports\/baseball\/01sandomir.html?_r=1&#038;sq=willie%20mays%20%20&#038;st=cse&#038;oref=slogin&#038;scp=2&#038;pagewanted=print\">this<\/a> and I do wish I had HBO.  <\/p>\n<p>During a game in Hagerstown, Md., Mays said he was taunted but felt he could not retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first night, I hit two home runs and a triple,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next night, I hit two home runs and a double. On the loudspeaker, now, this was the loudspeaker, they say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLadies and gentlemen, we know you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like that kid playing center field, but please do not bother him again, because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s killing us.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 But that was a way of getting back in my mind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the Wire ended, my cable envy faded. But I hear about interviews like this and I do wish I had HBO. During a game in Hagerstown, Md., Mays said he was taunted but felt he could not retaliate. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first night, I hit two home runs and a triple,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next night, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wish I had cable<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-37","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}