{"id":2431,"date":"2013-01-31T08:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2013-01-30T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T03:06:05","slug":"baseball-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2013\/01\/31\/baseball-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/baseballtrivia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2432\" title=\"baseballtrivia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/baseballtrivia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/baseballtrivia.jpg 271w, http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/baseballtrivia-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>I got a deck of &#8220;What do you know about Baseball?&#8221; cards for Christmas, and as such am sharing some of the cards with you to whittle away what&#8217;s left of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baseball parlance refers to the &#8220;turkey wattle.&#8221; What is it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: Pointer;\" title=\"The term refers to the metal throat guard attached to the bottom of the catcher's mask. Although throat protectors have been available since 1903, it was not until 1977 that they came into popular use. Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager is credited with popularizing the protector at that time.    On a related subject, Reds catcher Johnny Bench is believed to have been the first to wear a batting helmet while behind the plate to protect his head from foul balls and wild bat swings.\">Mouse over here for the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a deck of &#8220;What do you know about Baseball?&#8221; cards for Christmas, and as such am sharing some of the cards with you to whittle away what&#8217;s left of the offseason. &nbsp; Baseball parlance refers to the &#8220;turkey wattle.&#8221; What is it? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mouse over here for the answer. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[2825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431"}],"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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}