{"id":18,"date":"2011-07-17T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5efadab6-03cb-4884-a1a8-73da73aca3b3"},"modified":"2011-07-17T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:30:00","slug":"thanks-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Mate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a game we anticipated since the beginning of the season.  I&nbsp;bought<br \/>\nfour tickets so all of us could go to the pregame mascot softball&nbsp;game.<br \/>\nUsually it is just me and one of the kids but they both wanted to go&nbsp;and Amy<br \/>\ndecided she would like to go so I bought the tickets as part of the&nbsp;season<br \/>\nticket holder presale.  Since it was team bat day, the kids wanted a&nbsp;bat so<br \/>\nthat meant we would have to get there around the time the gates&nbsp;opened to<br \/>\nmake sure they got one.  We got to the ballpark just as gates&nbsp;were opening so<br \/>\nthe kids got their bats.  Then we headed to see who was&nbsp;signing the<br \/>\nautographs for the kids and found out it was Drew Butera and&nbsp;Luke Hughes.  I<br \/>\nhad a card for Hughes and asked Cami if she would get it&nbsp;signed for me.  Of<br \/>\ncourse she said she would (she is awesome when it comes&nbsp;to autograph stuff).<br \/>\nShe wanted to get her ticket signed by Butera so she&nbsp;and I waited in the<br \/>\nconcourse area.  Caden and Amy headed to our seats.  As&nbsp;we got to the table,<br \/>\nshe gave Drew her ticket and he signed it and thanked&nbsp;him.  I told her to say<br \/>\n&#8220;Hi mate!&#8221; to Hughes since he is from Australia. &nbsp;As I told her that, Butera<br \/>\nstopped signing for the kid behind us and said&nbsp;&#8220;I gotta hear this!&#8221; and<br \/>\nleaned in to hear Cami say hi.  She said no to me&nbsp;and Luke signed the card<br \/>\nand handed it back to her.  I told her to say&nbsp;&#8220;Thanks mate!&#8221; and again she<br \/>\nsaid no and just said thank you.  Luke said&nbsp;&#8220;Thanks mate!&#8221; to Cami.  It was<br \/>\nfunny.  We ended up heading to our seats&nbsp;then.  Of course they were in the<br \/>\nsun (the overlook section) and it was H O&nbsp;T!  We watched the mascot game.<br \/>\nAfter the National Anthem, Amy and Cami&nbsp;went to get some stuff for us to<br \/>\neat.  When they came back, Cami said she&nbsp;felt like puking because she was so<br \/>\nhot.  We ended up leaving in the middle&nbsp;of the first inning.  That was a<br \/>\nbummer but we were at least able to enjoy&nbsp;a mascot game!  We got home and<br \/>\nlaid around watching the game and after an&nbsp;hour or so in the air conditioned<br \/>\nhouse, all was fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a game we anticipated since the beginning of the season. I&nbsp;bought four tickets so all of us could go to the pregame mascot softball&nbsp;game. Usually it is just me and one of the kids but they both wanted to go&nbsp;and Amy decided she would like to go so I bought the tickets as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks Mate!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}