{"id":19258,"date":"2022-08-10T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19258"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:51:32","slug":"if-you-build-it-they-wont-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/if-you-build-it-they-wont-come\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Build It, They Won&#8217;t Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16441\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD.jpg 960w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>One day before the Cubs and the Reds are set to battle in the second Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, word broke that MLB will not be returning to the site in 2023.\u00a0 Frank Thomas, the former White Sox star who is part of the new ownership group that owns and operates the site, said that construction plans at the movie site will prevent MLB from returning next year.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and his partners, who bought the site after the inaugural game last year, plan to put in a youth baseball and softball complex that they hope will begin construction later this year.\u00a0 The construction work will impact the site&#8217;s accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>Will a game return there in 2024?\u00a0 Too soon to tell, though breaking the inertia of making this an annual tradition will be a hurdle that will need to be jumped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day before the Cubs and the Reds are set to battle in the second Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, word broke that MLB will not be returning to the site in 2023.\u00a0 Frank Thomas, the former White Sox star who is part of the new ownership group that owns and operates the [&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":[120,8448,84,2244,53],"class_list":["post-19258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-field-of-dreams","tag-frank-thomas","tag-mlb","tag-reds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258","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=19258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19259,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions\/19259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}