{"id":738,"date":"2015-10-08T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/?p=738"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:58:31","slug":"bleeding-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2015\/10\/08\/bleeding-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends know that when I was growing up if I got a scratch, I bled Dodger Blue. Over the years my blood became normal&#8230; well kinda normal. My love of baseball and of the Dodgers faded to almost oblivion. However, in the last few years my blood has taken on a tinge of that blue again.<\/p>\n<p>Now this year &#8216;Dem Bums&#8221; are in the playoffs again. It&#8217;s almost a reflex for me to say, &#8220;Go Dodgers.&#8221; But this year there&#8217;s a different &#8220;blue&#8221; in the mix&#8230; the Cubbies.<\/p>\n<p>You see&#8230; the Cubbies haven&#8217;t won the National League pennant and gone to the World Series in 70 years&#8230; they haven&#8217;t won the World Series in 107 years. In those 107 years they have lost in the world series 7 times&#8230; lost the National League\u00a0 Championship playoffs three times&#8230; and the Division championships three times.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Cubbies won their wild card playoff game and go to the Division championships again. This time against the St. Louis Cardinals. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s about time the Cubbie fans&#8230; the long suffering Cubbie fans have &#8220;their year?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; yes but only sorta. You see&#8230; as it stands the Cubbies are not playing the Dodgers. So for now, my Dodger blue blood is also Cubbie blue blood. I really do hope they win&#8230; maybe win it all. So for now I can say, &#8220;Go Cubbies!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; if the Cubbies play the Dodgers for the National League Pennant&#8230; I guess my blood is going to curdle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends know that when I was growing up if I got a scratch, I bled Dodger Blue. Over the years my blood became normal&#8230; well kinda normal. My love of baseball and of the Dodgers faded to almost oblivion. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2015\/10\/08\/bleeding-blue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}