{"id":221,"date":"2008-04-16T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/former-cubs-are-a-good-bet\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:03:17","slug":"former-cubs-are-a-good-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/former-cubs-are-a-good-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cubs are a good bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a tie, but this gimmick is hardly a rousing success so far. Thank you to the two voters for being good stewards of the Bugle franchise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/images\/2005\/05\/18\/H5zlouHv.jpg\" title=\"Thanks to mlb.com\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Corey Patterson&#8217;s birthday is August 13, and Melky Cabrera&#8217;s is August 11. Both are within a week of my own! So the tie-breaker goes to Mr. Patterson, with the closer one. He&#8217;ll be on the roster tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a tie, but this gimmick is hardly a rousing success so far. Thank you to the two voters for being good stewards of the Bugle franchise. Corey Patterson&#8217;s birthday is August 13, and Melky Cabrera&#8217;s is August 11. Both are within a week of my own! So the tie-breaker goes to Mr. Patterson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}