{"id":573884075,"date":"2012-10-26T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884075"},"modified":"2012-10-28T03:29:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T08:29:37","slug":"fortune-ate-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/fortune-ate-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune-ate one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Chinese for dinner tonight. We&#8217;d ventured out to watch major league baseball players take some batting practice for a good cause. It was a home run derby and some of these guys needed the cuts. <\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves&#8217; Tim Hudson does this every year for <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hudsonfamilyfoundation.com\/\">his foundation<\/a>, which provides financial help to children and their families living with a life-altering or terminal disease. He put pitchers against field position players this year. The pitchers had a shorter fence, and that brought the entire event down to the last at bat, by Hudson, a pitcher, who happened to be an excellent batter in college. <\/p>\n<p>And so he won the thing. The fix was in, surely. But probably not. No one cared. They raised almost $15,000 tonight. <\/p>\n<p>So we had Chinese after, because nothing sounded good to anyone and I thought Chinese would be convenient and everyone likes Chinese and the place we go would still be open for takeout.<\/p>\n<p>Only they were still open for dine in, so we ate there and got fortune cookies and everything. <\/p>\n<p>Mine was pretty good:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct85.jpg\" alt=\"fortune\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pretty good &#8220;news&#8221; for a Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Chinese for dinner tonight. We&#8217;d ventured out to watch major league baseball players take some batting practice for a good cause. It was a home run derby and some of these guys needed the cuts. The Atlanta Braves&#8217; Tim Hudson does this every year for his foundation, which provides financial help to children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,14,28,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-friday","category-iphone","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884077,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884075\/revisions\/573884077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}