{"id":573891106,"date":"2019-03-18T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891106"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:10:48","slug":"batter-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/batter-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Batter up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a beautiful afternoon. It was sunny and 40\u00b0 and that&#8217;s about the best one can hope for in the middle of March. We watched the amazing #19 Indiana softball team take on the thoroughly OK, I guess, Northwestern Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar19\/mar10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We had to break out the rally sunglasses. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar19\/mar11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But unfortunately <a href=\"https:\/\/iuhoosiers.com\/boxscore.aspx?id=14669&#038;path=softball\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the home team lost<\/a>. One of the nice things about softball, though, aside from the swift play and the nice athleticism, is that there&#8217;s always another game. Yesterday they played a doubleheader. We caught the afternoon game, when <a href=\"https:\/\/iuhoosiers.com\/boxscore.aspx?id=14671&#038;path=softball\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana took on, and defeated, the perfectly hapless Ohio Bobcats<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar19\/mar12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Softball played five games this weekend. It&#8217;s possible that they have the most grueling collegiate schedule among varsity sports &#8212; 55 games in three months, and that&#8217;s before tournament play. We know the starting catcher. She&#8217;d agree; it&#8217;s a lot. Great fun to see, though. It&#8217;d be nice if it were, you know, warmer. Because it&#8217;s mid-March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a beautiful afternoon. It was sunny and 40\u00b0 and that&#8217;s about the best one can hope for in the middle of March. We watched the amazing #19 Indiana softball team take on the thoroughly OK, I guess, Northwestern Wildcats. We had to break out the rally sunglasses. But unfortunately the home team lost. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,73,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-iu","category-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891106","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891107,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891106\/revisions\/573891107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}