{"id":24300,"date":"2026-05-14T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24300"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:26:42","slug":"back-to-500-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/back-to-500-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To .500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24301\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rf-fireworks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rf-fireworks.jpg 492w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rf-fireworks-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/>After yesterday&#8217;s 6-5 victory over the Royals, the White Sox find themselves without a losing record past March for the first time since the conclusion of the 2022 season, when they finished 81-81.\u00a0 After three consecutive 100-loss seasons, this seems like celebrating.\u00a0 Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean that they are suddenly a &#8220;good&#8221; team or that they will finish the year above .500, but they do seem to be moving in the right direction and are finally entertaining to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s 6-5 victory over the Royals, the White Sox find themselves without a losing record past March for the first time since the conclusion of the 2022 season, when they finished 81-81.\u00a0 After three consecutive 100-loss seasons, this seems like celebrating.\u00a0 Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean that they are suddenly a &#8220;good&#8221; team or that [&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":[126,49],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-royals","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","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=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24302,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions\/24302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}