{"id":511,"date":"2009-11-16T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=511"},"modified":"2009-11-17T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:27:09","slug":"does-citi-field-need-some-neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/11\/16\/does-citi-field-need-some-neon\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Citi Field Need Some Neon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone miss the neon figures on the outside of Shea?\u00a0 They weren\u2019t the prettiest, or the classiest, but they gave the place a unique character that many Mets fans enjoyed.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool that they incorporated the images into the carpets in the clubhouse, but I think a lot of what people miss about Shea is that uniqueness that right now is missing from Citi Field in many instances.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/Pqt3cpdyN5gEr0lHmBwo9A?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/Sv1jCJaOtLI\/AAAAAAAAHuo\/y9ziVfA7Oac\/s400\/IMG_8554.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ceetar\/Denver?feat=embedwebsite\">Denver<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Coors Field in Colorado features <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ceetar\/Denver#5403584168791088322\">this<\/a> on the side of the building.\u00a0 Ignore the awesome fact that it\u2019s actually over a park entrance that\u2019s also a brewery where Coors tests experimental brews, and it\u2019s still something that I would love to see at Citi Field.\u00a0 Maybe instead of this simple play at the plate, they could do something similar where the ball gets under a fielder\u2019s glove (Buckner\u2019s?) and it flashes \u201cMets Win!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone miss the neon figures on the outside of Shea?\u00a0 They weren\u2019t the prettiest, or the classiest, but they gave the place a unique character that many Mets fans enjoyed.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool that they incorporated the images into the carpets in the clubhouse, but I think a lot of what people miss about Shea &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/11\/16\/does-citi-field-need-some-neon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Citi Field Need Some Neon?&#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":[15,3,85],"tags":[862,2968,2966,752,860,861,2964,859,376,800,2971,863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}