{"id":1755,"date":"2012-01-26T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-01-26T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:08:19","slug":"new-mets-hof-member-john-franco-first-pitch-at-citi-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/01\/26\/new-mets-hof-member-john-franco-first-pitch-at-citi-field\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mets HOF Member John Franco: First Pitch at Citi Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to John Franco for being selected for the Mets Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know John Franco threw out the first ever ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field? \u00a0It&#8217;s true! \u00a0It took place at an exhibition game between St. Johns and Georgetown. \u00a0Franco went to St. Johns, so was tagged to do the honors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GPN6Bfn1tfc\/TyF1WFj1zeI\/AAAAAAAABoA\/10qI7EhlViE\/s640\/IMG_4386.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JohnFranco\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GPN6Bfn1tfc\/TyF1WFj1zeI\/AAAAAAAABoA\/10qI7EhlViE\/s640\/IMG_4386.JPG\" alt=\"John Franco throws out the first ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field. -Ceetar\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-6onEFssiTvI\/TyF1S2M7-BI\/AAAAAAAABnM\/wiYewbfKFwc\/s640\/IMG_4380.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"johnfrancopitch\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-6onEFssiTvI\/TyF1S2M7-BI\/AAAAAAAABnM\/wiYewbfKFwc\/s640\/IMG_4380.JPG\" alt=\"John Franco Throwing out the first ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field for a St. Johns game. -Ceetar\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to John Franco for being selected for the Mets Hall of Fame. Did you know John Franco threw out the first ever ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field? \u00a0It&#8217;s true! \u00a0It took place at an exhibition game between St. Johns and Georgetown. \u00a0Franco went to St. Johns, so was tagged to do the honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[575,15,3],"tags":[2442,2966,2441,2443,928,919,14,2440,2439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}