{"id":116,"date":"2004-10-03T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-10-04T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T06:44:51","slug":"a-classy-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/a-classy-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classy Let-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sign at the final Mariners game of the season &#8211; and the final game of a stellar career of Edgar Martinez &#8211; read liek this: Edgar Martinez is spelled C-L-A-S-S. And that was about all Edgar had going for him on his final night. It ended relatively disappointingly, with the veteran designated hitter grounding into two double plays and with a few pop flies. But, for the second time in as many attended games, I was struck by the fact that the moment was swallowing almost everything else up. <\/p>\n<p>Edgar was always one of my favorite players, ever since the wee old Kingdome days. And I&#8217;ll never forget what is now termed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/baseball\/193181_edgame01.html\">the hit that saved baseball in Seattle<\/a>.&#8221; For that hit, I was sitting in the shoe department of Nordstrom&#8217;s in Bellevue Square, watching on the smallish, vertically stacked TVs. In fact, the whole store was pretty mcuh watching those TVs when it happened. It was a pretty exciting time &#8211; the first time in the playoffs, and beating the Yankees at that, in such spetacular fashion. Its one for the ages, and one that a loss to Texas can&#8217;t ever take away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sign at the final Mariners game of the season &#8211; and the final game of a stellar career of Edgar Martinez &#8211; read liek this: Edgar Martinez is spelled C-L-A-S-S. And that was about all Edgar had going for him on his final night. It ended relatively disappointingly, with the veteran designated hitter grounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,11],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-life","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}