{"id":1027,"date":"2011-03-05T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:43:44","slug":"broke-mets-spend-7500-on-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/03\/05\/broke-mets-spend-7500-on-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Broke Mets Spend $7500 on Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com\/sports\/article\/1385570\">link <\/a>earlier. \u00a0 \u00a0Apparently Chip Hale suggested that the Mets should practice on a similar infield to what they do in Citi Field, so the team and the county purchased the dirt used in New York to use at Digital Domain Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It seemed like a no-brainer to me,&#8221; Hale said. &#8220;Why not make it as close to New York as possible? If it can help even a little bit, why not do it?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this link earlier. \u00a0 \u00a0Apparently Chip Hale suggested that the Mets should practice on a similar infield to what they do in Citi Field, so the team and the county purchased the dirt used in New York to use at Digital Domain Park. &nbsp; &#8220;It seemed like a no-brainer to me,&#8221; Hale said. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/03\/05\/broke-mets-spend-7500-on-dirt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broke Mets Spend $7500 on Dirt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1133,19,15,3,6],"tags":[1483,2966,1482,1480,2964,1485,1481,1484,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}