{"id":4134,"date":"2013-07-21T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2013-07-21T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:25:03","slug":"ballpark-tour-pnc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/ballpark-tour-pnc-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: PNC Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong> PNC Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Pirates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 2001 &#8211; Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p>After 30 1\/2 seasons at Three Rivers Stadium, the Pittsburgh Pirates moved into their new home for the 2001 season, starting with an 8-2 loss against the Reds on April 9th.\u00a0 Since then, the stadium has ranked at or near the top of most rankings, with the only drawback being the woeful state of its main occupant.<\/p>\n<p>I made my one trip to PNC Park on May 15, 2005 to see the Cubs defeat the Pirates 3-2.\u00a0 Southwest Airlines was introducing service from Chicago to Pittsburgh and was offering fares for $30 each way, so plans were made for a daytrip out to Pittsburgh.\u00a0 We arrived in town and took a bus from the airport to the stadium, where we ate a pregame meal of ribs at the in-stadium Outback Steakhouse.\u00a0 Yeah, you read that right.\u00a0 There was an Outback Steakhouse in the stadium.\u00a0 After the game, there was another bus trip back to the airport for the flight back to Chicago, which seemed to be made up strictly of people who were at the game, as a rousing rendition of <em>Take Me Out To The Ballgame<\/em> broke out mid-flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name: PNC Park Location: Pittsburgh Home Team: Pirates Years in Service: 2001 &#8211; Present Visits: 1 After 30 1\/2 seasons at Three Rivers Stadium, the Pittsburgh Pirates moved into their new home for the 2001 season, starting with an 8-2 loss against the Reds on April 9th.\u00a0 Since then, the stadium has ranked at [&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":[120,3588,112,610,53,3589,3587],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-outback-steakhouse","tag-pirates","tag-pnc-park","tag-reds","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-three-rivers-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","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=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}