{"id":2681,"date":"2014-02-07T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2014-02-06T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:52:46","slug":"r-i-p-ralph-kiner-original-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2014\/02\/07\/r-i-p-ralph-kiner-original-met\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ralph Kiner, Original Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/KinerNight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2683\" title=\"Ralph Kiner Night\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/KinerNight.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Ceetar\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a>Ralph Kiner; original Met. He passed away yesterday at the age of 91, having lived a very full life. One of the few people that can unify a group as diverse as Mets fans, and he&#8217;ll be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have never known a season without Ralph, and this feels odd. The Mets have crossed into this weird place where their original history is becoming beyond the memory of most.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the Mets do, whether it&#8217;s rename a corner of the field Kiner&#8217;s Korner, wear a patch, or anything else, it&#8217;ll never be too much. I&#8217;ve heard some fun ideas bounced around on Twitter, and I&#8217;d love to see the team adopt any or all of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll miss you Ralph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Kiner; original Met. He passed away yesterday at the age of 91, having lived a very full life. One of the few people that can unify a group as diverse as Mets fans, and he&#8217;ll be sorely missed. &nbsp; The Mets have never known a season without Ralph, and this feels odd. The Mets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2014\/02\/07\/r-i-p-ralph-kiner-original-met\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R.I.P. Ralph Kiner, Original Met&#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":[2892,3],"tags":[2964,2902,1756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}