{"id":219,"date":"2009-02-26T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-03-03T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:45:55","slug":"spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/02\/26\/spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s spring. The first televised Mets game is on, and I&#8217;m excited.  The team looks good, and cheery.  They can forget last year and focus on this year, start working towards a better future.  I opened a beer and started watching at 12:30 when Mets pregame started on SNY.  I&#8217;m excited for the season, for the team, for the new park.  This is the start of it.  Pitchers and catchers is a nice milestone, but it doesn&#8217;t hit home the same way seeing the players live, and hearing Gary Keith and Ron does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">More than anything, I have something else to look forward to.  I&#8217;m going down to Florida on March 11<sup>th<\/sup>, and actually seeing the games is making me antsy to get down there.   <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"img_3444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_3444.jpg\" alt=\"img_3444\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Spring Training Game on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[2968,2964,2977,2965,632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}