{"id":2142,"date":"2012-09-24T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:40:07","slug":"edgardo-alfonzo-and-a-bag-of-yams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/09\/24\/edgardo-alfonzo-and-a-bag-of-yams\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgardo Alfonzo and a Bag of Yams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unpublished post from earlier in the year. \u00a0What&#8217;s better than a Mets middle infielder with a bag full of sweet potatoes fighting hunger in New York via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityharvest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Harvest<\/a> (with the help of Jerry Koosman and Cleon Jones)?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is it a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheblack.com\/2012\/06\/16\/blogger-q-a-with-edgardo-alfonzo\/\" target=\"_blank\">question <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailystache.net\/archives\/2016#.T9y7WARtwas.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">answer <\/a>with said middle infielder?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alfoned01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Edgardo  Alfonzo<\/a><\/strong> with some sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-NxcRheGkvho\/T9v_bfaNHvI\/AAAAAAAAA5Y\/xaN29jfZJXU\/s640\/IMG_2137.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Edgardo  Alfonzo helps out the Mets and City Harvest\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-NxcRheGkvho\/T9v_bfaNHvI\/AAAAAAAAA5Y\/xaN29jfZJXU\/s640\/IMG_2137.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unpublished post from earlier in the year. \u00a0What&#8217;s better than a Mets middle infielder with a bag full of sweet potatoes fighting hunger in New York via City Harvest (with the help of Jerry Koosman and Cleon Jones)? &nbsp; Is it a question and answer with said middle infielder? &nbsp; Here&#8217;s Edgardo Alfonzo with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/09\/24\/edgardo-alfonzo-and-a-bag-of-yams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edgardo Alfonzo and a Bag of Yams&#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":[1336,2964,2774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}