{"id":23,"date":"2011-02-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c27dac14-d85c-4710-95cb-f3b0ec7a8384"},"modified":"2011-02-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:00:00","slug":"do-you-believe-in-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Do You Believe in Miracles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club had a 1980 US Hockey team member signing autographs. &nbsp;I normally do not collect anything other than MLB but since I started a couple Sports Illustrated magazines a while ago with a couple players, I thought I would give it a shot. &nbsp;Someone on SCN posted a question about Phil Verchota so I posted he was going to be signing autographs and I would be willing to help him out so he sent me his custom postcard.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I got to Valley West Mall a half hour or so before Phil was to sign. &nbsp;I recently met a guy on Pat Neshek&#8217;s website who needed some 2010 Topps update cards who was also going to the card show so I planned on meeting Mike there. &nbsp;He was already there when I got there so we talked for a bit and then got in line for Phil&#8217;s autograph.. &nbsp;Phil signed the postcard and my two Sports Illustrated magazines. &nbsp;After than Mike and I chatted a bit and we parted ways. &nbsp;I noticed Fred B was there so I went and talked to him for a half hour or so and headed home.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I now have four autographs on each of the Sports Illustrated magazines from the 1980 US Hockey Gold team!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club had a 1980 US Hockey team member signing autographs. &nbsp;I normally do not collect anything other than MLB but since I started a couple Sports Illustrated magazines a while ago with a couple players, I thought I would give it a shot. &nbsp;Someone on SCN posted a question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Believe in Miracles?&#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-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}