{"id":171,"date":"2008-07-12T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-07-12T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T00:14:00","slug":"on-top-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/07\/12\/on-top-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"On Top of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge confidence booster to end the unofficial first half on this kind of note.  Win or lose tomorrow, when they resume play on Thursday it&#8217;ll be with the knowledge that they can and will beat everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets now control their own destiny.  They are zero losses behind for the lead, so if they win, they win.   It&#8217;s a good place to be, and even if they were to fall back to one out, they can go into the break relaxed and confident.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time probably all year, their was optimism and confidence in the stands at Shea while I was there.  And the place was virtually packed too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge confidence booster to end the unofficial first half on this kind of note. Win or lose tomorrow, when they resume play on Thursday it&#8217;ll be with the knowledge that they can and will beat everyone. The Mets now control their own destiny. They are zero losses behind for the lead, so if they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/07\/12\/on-top-of-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Top of the World&#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":[3,85],"tags":[265,519,2964,338,430,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}