{"id":2016,"date":"2012-04-25T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2012-04-24T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:38:47","slug":"the-hofstra-mets-50th-anniversary-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/04\/25\/the-hofstra-mets-50th-anniversary-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hofstra Mets 50th Anniversary Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard about this conference, running from this Thursday through Saturday. \u00a0If not, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandfearinflushing.com\/2012\/04\/19\/please-come-to-hofstra-for-the-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faith and Fear in Flushing and Greg Prince<\/a>, who&#8217;s done a great job as a\u00a0liaison\u00a0between Hofstra and us bloggers in memory of Dana Brand, who&#8217;s brainchild this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hofstra.edu\/community\/culctr\/culctr_events_mets.html\" target=\"_blank\">conference <\/a>was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be part of the Brown Bagging in the Bullpen with the Blogosphere lunch panel on Thursday and Saturday with some notable Mets bloggers. \u00a0I&#8217;ll also be speaking in a panel on Saturday entitled &#8220;Metmoirs&#8221; and Memories about the plight of the New Age Mets Fan who&#8217;s never consciously lived through a Mets championship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to check it out, as it promises to be a fun couple of days and the Mets are headed out of town to Colorado anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard about this conference, running from this Thursday through Saturday. \u00a0If not, here&#8217;s a link to Faith and Fear in Flushing and Greg Prince, who&#8217;s done a great job as a\u00a0liaison\u00a0between Hofstra and us bloggers in memory of Dana Brand, who&#8217;s brainchild this conference was. &nbsp; I&#8217;ll be part of the Brown Bagging &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/04\/25\/the-hofstra-mets-50th-anniversary-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hofstra Mets 50th Anniversary Conference&#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":[1248,19,3],"tags":[2596,2598,2964,2597,2404,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}