{"id":1676,"date":"2017-12-06T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2017-12-06T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:00:02","slug":"between-a-rocco-and-a-hard-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Between a Rocco and a Hard Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a couple packages I had sent out to have signed.<\/p>\n<p>The first package contained a pair of tickets that Rocco Baldelli signed.\u00a0 Doug Keating had Rocco in as a signing guest and I mailed in a pair of tickets that were signed with inscriptions:<br \/>\n04.30.2003 stub with &#8220;1st MLB HR&#8221;<br \/>\n07.22.2004 full ticket with &#8220;1st MLB Grand Slam&#8221;<br \/>\nThey look cool and Doug does a great job with his signings.<\/p>\n<p>The other package was a request I sent to Bernie Carbo to sign a baseball with his memories of hitting the game tying home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.\u00a0 What I received was more of a testimonial baseball as he has found Christ and it basically turned his life around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a couple packages I had sent out to have signed. The first package contained a pair of tickets that Rocco Baldelli signed.\u00a0 Doug Keating had Rocco in as a signing guest and I mailed in a pair of tickets that were signed with inscriptions: 04.30.2003 stub with &#8220;1st MLB HR&#8221; 07.22.2004 full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Between a Rocco and a Hard Place&#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":[3,21,25,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-private-signing","category-story-ball-collection","category-tickets","category-ttm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}