{"id":2180,"date":"2020-01-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:00:00","slug":"a-red-letter-cardinals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"A Red Letter Cardinals Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I received a pair of packages and both are related to St Louis Cardinals!<br>The first was a pair of baseballs that I had sent to Tom Orr for Ted Simmons to sign.  When they announced that Ted Simmons made the Hall of Fame, I realized I did not have any baseballs signed by him.  Tom saved the day with a signing and I now have a pair of baseballs with one signed &#8220;Hall of Fame 2020&#8221; and the other &#8220;HOF 2020&#8221;.  They are both signed beautifully!<br>The other package was three items that Derrick B (dlbiri1s on SCN) got signed for me at the Cardinals Winter Warm Up.  The items I added to the collection include an Alex Reyes ML Debut ticket with &#8220;ML Debut&#8221;, my 10.10.2016 Sports Illustrated magazine that was already signed by Jake Arrieta is now signed by Dexter Fowler as well, and the last item was a ticket stub from the 1987 World Series Game 5 signed by Danny Cox.  Danny included &#8220;WP&#8221; as he was the winning pitcher in the game.  I got the ticket from my buddy Steve C who is a huge Cardinals fan and a great guy.<br>What a fun Cardinals mail day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a pair of packages and both are related to St Louis Cardinals!The first was a pair of baseballs that I had sent to Tom Orr for Ted Simmons to sign. When they announced that Ted Simmons made the Hall of Fame, I realized I did not have any baseballs signed by him. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=2180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Red Letter Cardinals Day!&#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":[3,9,13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-consignment","category-hof","category-sports-illustrated","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}