{"id":247,"date":"2004-10-28T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2004-10-28T18:12:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T22:12:46","slug":"red-sox-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/red-sox-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Nation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo! Go Sox!<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t believe it. Man, 86 years.  For some perspective, my grandfather (&#8216;Poppy&#8217; &#8211; not to be confused with &#8216;Papi&#8217; &#8211; go Ortiz!) was 14 when the Sox last won the series, the age Gabe is now.<\/p>\n<p>There was a big flu epidemic, and our troops were fighting overseas  (then it was Europe in WWI), so some things stay the same.<\/p>\n<p>There was no TV, but about 2\/3 of the country had radios. No NFL, no NBA, (basketball was only 26 years old), movies were silent, Albert Einstein was 39, and Wyatt Earp was still alive. Women weren&#8217;t allowed to vote yet. <\/p>\n<p>I remember cool summer nights in the late sixties and early seventies, when I would sleep out in a tent in the backyard, listening to the Red Sox on a transistor radio. Ned Martin would be calling the plays &#8211; the names I remembered &#8211; Yaz, Rico Petrocelli, Tony Conigliaro, Sparky Lyle. Now my kids will remember Johnny Damon, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>See you again in 2090!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo! Go Sox! I still can&#8217;t believe it. Man, 86 years. For some perspective, my grandfather (&#8216;Poppy&#8217; &#8211; not to be confused with &#8216;Papi&#8217; &#8211; go Ortiz!) was 14 when the Sox last won the series, the age Gabe is now. There was a big flu epidemic, and our troops were fighting overseas (then it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}