{"id":3748,"date":"2025-10-04T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:44:15","slug":"rippin-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"Rippin&#8217; It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across a post where Mike F of GOAT Sports Collectibles was selling a few magazines.  I had most but a pair that really caught my eye that I needed was a pair of Sports Illustrated.  One with Cal Ripken and one with Alex Rodriguez.  I had the Cal Ripken issue but the CANADA version.  I got that one signed years ago when Cal was doing a signing in the Twin Cities.  This was the United States version from 12.18.1995.  The A-Rod issue was from 07.08.1996.  Both are authenticated by JSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a post where Mike F of GOAT Sports Collectibles was selling a few magazines. I had most but a pair that really caught my eye that I needed was a pair of Sports Illustrated. One with Cal Ripken and one with Alex Rodriguez. I had the Cal Ripken issue but the CANADA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rippin&#8217; It&#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":[4,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bought","category-hof","category-sports-illustrated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","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=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}