{"id":1449,"date":"2016-12-30T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2016-12-30T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:00:34","slug":"a-pretty-cool-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"A Pretty Cool Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son has been going with a couple teammates from his baseball team to a local baseball training place and his primary hitting coach is Michael Kvasnicka. \u00a0I enjoy watching Michael and the boys interact and I have certainly seen a great improvement with Caden&#8217;s hitting. \u00a0I thought it would be cool to get some of Michael&#8217;s cards to give the kids to get signed after one of their hitting sessions. \u00a0Tonight was the night. \u00a0After hitting, Caden and his friend Blake went to Michael&#8217;s office and asked if he would sign some cards for him. \u00a0I ended up going there a few minutes later and had a short chat about baseball stuff for a little bit. \u00a0It was really cool. \u00a0Michael signed his Gophers cards but I made a rookie mistake and did not prep the Topps Pro Debut thinking the Steadtler would be fine. \u00a0Even that beaded up so he said he would sign them after I prepped them. \u00a0While chatting with him, I told him that I had gotten one of the Pro Debut cards signed at Twinsfest a few years ago. \u00a0He told me he remembered me. \u00a0(I doubted it but still thought it was cool). \u00a0While looking for other cards of his I came across Jay and asked if it was his dad or uncle. \u00a0It turned out his dad was drafted by the Twins and played in the Twins system just like Michael. \u00a0I thought that was really neat. \u00a0I will prep the cards and let the kids in Caden&#8217;s hitting sessions have them to get signed. \u00a0I think that is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son has been going with a couple teammates from his baseball team to a local baseball training place and his primary hitting coach is Michael Kvasnicka. \u00a0I enjoy watching Michael and the boys interact and I have certainly seen a great improvement with Caden&#8217;s hitting. \u00a0I thought it would be cool to get some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Pretty Cool Chat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caden","category-ip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}