{"id":12248,"date":"2017-04-25T02:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:23:23","slug":"bad-jersey-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/bad-jersey-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Jersey Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12250\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avila-jersey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avila-jersey.jpg 378w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/avila-jersey-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a>Last fall, while waiting outside Wrigley Field to get in for the World Series, I saw a young gentleman wearing an Arismendy Alcantara jersey and thought, wow, what a colossal mistake this man has made. \u00a0I thought about starting a Tumblr\/Twitter account to track poor jersey choices, but never really got around to it. \u00a0As this season has gotten underway, I&#8217;ve kept an eye out for instances of people who really should have put more thought in to their apparel purchases.<\/p>\n<p>On the north side of town, it has been a total strikeout. \u00a0Seeing how everyone has renewed their jersey purchases with the World Series championship, there is just a sea of Rizzos, Bryants, and, of course, Rosses. \u00a0On the south side of town, I finally hit paydirt on Sunday, when I came across someone who was so enthralled by last year&#8217;s signing of broken down catcher Alex Avila, that he went out and bought the jersey. \u00a0A long lasting tribute to a one-season player who spent much of his time here on the disabled list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, while waiting outside Wrigley Field to get in for the World Series, I saw a young gentleman wearing an Arismendy Alcantara jersey and thought, wow, what a colossal mistake this man has made. \u00a0I thought about starting a Tumblr\/Twitter account to track poor jersey choices, but never really got around to it. \u00a0As [&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":[6980,271,2363,5033,7366,5046,7365,560,595],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-alex-avila","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-arismendy-alcantara","tag-david-ross","tag-kris-bryant","tag-tumblr","tag-twitter","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","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=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}