{"id":2818,"date":"2015-04-10T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2015-04-10T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T11:57:04","slug":"now-its-baseball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2015\/04\/10\/now-its-baseball-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NOW It&#8217;s Baseball Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1364825095130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2708\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1364825095130-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1364825095130\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1364825095130-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1364825095130-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1364825095130.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve chased the disappointment of the first loss with Harvey Day, and now the Mets move on to their second series and we really start settling in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the excitement of Opening Day, and the disappointment of a rain delay and a loss, our first series win, and Matt Harvey&#8217;s return the Mets have packed a lot into the first week of the season. Now it&#8217;s time to settle in for the long season and make the Mets a part of our routine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next week the Mets return home, we get Citi Field noises and visits, normal 7:10 start times and the flood&#8211;might still be a trickle&#8211;of Mets caps and jerseys representing people headed to the game that evening. The Mets play everyday. It becomes a routine. Arrow, Jeopardy and iZombie episodes pile up on the DVR.\u00a0We&#8217;ll have seen every NL East team by next weekend, and we&#8217;ll get acquainted with new heroes and villains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baseball is back!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday is Opening Day. I&#8217;ll be doing my usually stroll through the stadium looking for what&#8217;s new, cataloging the new beer selection, and just generally tweeting and sharing interesting observations. Make sure you follow along on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ceetar\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve chased the disappointment of the first loss with Harvey Day, and now the Mets move on to their second series and we really start settling in. &nbsp; With the excitement of Opening Day, and the disappointment of a rain delay and a loss, our first series win, and Matt Harvey&#8217;s return the Mets have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2015\/04\/10\/now-its-baseball-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOW It&#8217;s Baseball Season&#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":[2937,19,351,15,3],"tags":[2942,2964,331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"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=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}