{"id":573886316,"date":"2014-05-13T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886316"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:29:58","slug":"youre-going-to-need-a-bigger-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/youre-going-to-need-a-bigger-sack\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You’re going to need a bigger sack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auburn hosted UAB in baseball tonight. The Blazers had a 10-game winning streak (the sixth longest in the nation) on the line. Auburn had beaten UAB 15 games in a row in the series. So naturally it came down to a bases loaded walkoff walk:<\/p>\n

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Auburn won, 6-5<\/a>, and they did the traditional baseball “We won the pennant!” dogpile after that.<\/p>\n

Just before the game several of the electricity transformers just behind the baseball stadium exploded. We were treated to green smoke and acrid smells for a while. Eventually the scoreboard and the lights were restored, and that became just one more story in the baseball season. Dude. Green smoke.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking of things you never want to hear about: our air conditioner is definitely broken. Two days in a row I’ve worked in the yard and now I’m sweating as much inside as I do outside. (Though half the yard looks much nicer now, thanks.) So the A\/C guy will be by tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Here’s something that could happen at a lot more local television stations:<\/p>\n

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She got a lot of pats on the back for that around the office, I promise. <\/p>\n

Things to read<\/strong> … because I put the words here.<\/p>\n

This is the first story that the new staff for the Crimson has published. They did a nice job, especially considering it is an under-deadline, semester’s-end, big story assignment: Memorial service remembers Foreman as a \u2018blessing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts of Online Reputation Management<\/a><\/p>\n

I only have a minor in economics, but if you’re counting on a late Easter to give the national engine a nudge … you’re living on the margins: Retail sales flatline, disappoint in April despite warmer weather<\/a><\/p>\n

There is an impressive picture with this story, just so you know. Woman gets slithery surprise when she finds a 12-foot snake in her bathroom<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“When the officer showed up, he came with a brown paper sack,” she recalled. “I told him, ‘you’re going to need a bigger sack than that.'”<\/p>\n

Gonzales, who’s been with the police department about five years, said he’d previously responded to three snake calls, but nothing like that.<\/p>\n

“When I opened her bathroom door, there was a 12-foot python,” Gonzales recalled. “I didn’t know what I was going to do with a snake that large.”<\/p>\n

He asked dispatchers to send animal control officers. Shortly afterward, another College Station officer arrived, also armed with a paper bag, and soon the animal control officer showed up with a 10-gallon bucket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then they had to fight to get the thing into a large garbage can. Close your doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Auburn hosted UAB in baseball tonight. The Blazers had a 10-game winning streak (the sixth longest in the nation) on the line. Auburn had beaten UAB 15 games in a row in the series. So naturally it came down to a bases loaded walkoff walk: Auburn won, 6-5, and they did the traditional baseball “We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,35,25,44,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-baseball","category-journalism","category-links","category-things-to-read","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886316","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=573886316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886319,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886316\/revisions\/573886319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}