{"id":573892555,"date":"2020-09-29T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892555"},"modified":"2020-10-02T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:27:43","slug":"two-campus-notes-just-before-the-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/09\/29\/two-campus-notes-just-before-the-full-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Two campus notes, just before the full moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checked my mailbox on campus today and there was a little poster tube there. It was from the Office of the Bicentennial. The university, early this year, celebrated its 200th anniversary and, while it was a bit abbreviated because of the coronavirus shutdown, we&#8217;d been marking the event for a few years. <\/p>\n<p>From time to time I had the good fortune to help them with this or that, and someone there was kind enough to send me a little thank you. I got a nice poster and some cool lapel pins:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept20\/sept23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So my question is, can I wear those in 2021? <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there&#8217;s baseball going on. And today I used my awesome powers to put three simultaneous playoff games on the big screen:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept20\/sept24.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No one was there to watch them, because few people come into the building these days under the university&#8217;s wise safety precautions. But just as it is weird to consider 16 teams in baseball&#8217;s post season, it seemed normal to put sports on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what they showed on that screen 200 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>Ha! That&#8217;s a trick question! That building is only 103 years old! Back in 1917 you would have watched the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1917_World_Series\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a>. The Sox, who won the series, were managed by a man named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pants_Rowland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pants Rowland<\/a>. The Giants were managed by John McGraw, he of the bony old fingers. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9yrupye7B0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you know there was a real Moonlight Graham? Burt Lancaster put poetry to the thing, but his is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moonlight_Graham\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a beautiful and common tale<\/a>, even without the book or the film. (The one inning the real Graham played in was a bit earlier than the film, in 1905. He passed away in 1965.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Moonlight-Story-Dreams-Graham\/dp\/0895873699\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=Chasing+Moonlight&#038;qid=1601670178&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s a book about him<\/a>. Let me know if he ever made it down this way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checked my mailbox on campus today and there was a little poster tube there. It was from the Office of the Bicentennial. The university, early this year, celebrated its 200th anniversary and, while it was a bit abbreviated because of the coronavirus shutdown, we&#8217;d been marking the event for a few years. From time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,32,73,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-history","category-iu","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892555","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=573892555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892558,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892555\/revisions\/573892558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}