{"id":10947,"date":"2016-09-16T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:51:57","slug":"back-to-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/back-to-the-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016CentralChamps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10948\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016CentralChamps.jpg\" alt=\"2016centralchamps\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016CentralChamps.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016CentralChamps-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016CentralChamps-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>For the second consecutive year, the Cubs are heading to the postseason after\u00a0clinching their first division title since 2008 with last night&#8217;s Cardinals loss to the Giants. \u00a0Their next target is to clinch home field advantage throughout the NL playoffs, where they hold a 6 game lead in the loss column over the Nationals with 15 games left to play. \u00a0The Cubs hope to avenge last year&#8217;s sweep in the NLCS at the hands of the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to clinching his early is that the next important game the Cubs play will be 3 weeks from today when the NLDS kicks off.\u00a0 Hopefully they will be able to kick off the rust as they attempt to end their 108 year championship drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second consecutive year, the Cubs are heading to the postseason after\u00a0clinching their first division title since 2008 with last night&#8217;s Cardinals loss to the Giants. \u00a0Their next target is to clinch home field advantage throughout the NL playoffs, where they hold a 6 game lead in the loss column over the Nationals with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[57,120,256,261,117,1647,1646],"class_list":["post-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-giants","tag-mets","tag-nationals","tag-nlcs","tag-nlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10951,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions\/10951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}