{"id":145,"date":"2005-09-13T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2005\/09\/13\/timing-is-everything"},"modified":"2005-09-13T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T03:26:00","slug":"timing-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/timing-is-everything.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the entire crew of us went to see yesterday’s Tigers game at Comerica Park<\/a>. (I didn’t know that I’d miss Michigan and Trumble, the Only True Home\u2122 of the Tigers, so much, but that’s another story …)<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful day for a baseball game, sunny and hot, but with a breeze. Marring the perfection, however, was the blaring of the speakers directly above our heads as we sat 4 rows below maximum nosebleed.<\/p>\n

I was coping, but Nancy was developing a horrific headache. It didn’t help that the Princess Rachel, in her cheering enthusiasm, had developed a rather piercing shriek to her constant “Go Tigers! Go Tigers!”<\/p>\n

By the fifth inning, Nancy had to finally tell Rachel to please tone it down. “Save it for when someone hits a home run.”<\/p>\n

Rachel, disappointed but obedient, puts on her sad face, quietly nods her assent …<\/p>\n

CRACK!<\/span><\/p>\n

… and Brandon Inge knocks it out of left field for a tie-breaking two-run homer.<\/p>\n

“Yay Tigers! Yay Tigers!”<\/span><\/p>\n

The sheer choreography of it was breathtaking, and a thing of beauty. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the entire crew of us went to see yesterday’s Tigers game at Comerica Park. (I didn’t know that I’d miss Michigan and Trumble, the Only True Home\u2122 of the Tigers, so much, but that’s another story …) It was a beautiful day for a baseball game, sunny and hot, but with a breeze. Marring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}