{"id":4153,"date":"2013-09-29T07:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2013-09-29T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:15:19","slug":"ballpark-tour-miller-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/ballpark-tour-miller-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Miller Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong> Miller Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Milwaukee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Brewers, Indians, Astros<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a02001 &#8211; Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 4<\/p>\n<p>After spending the first 26 years of their existence in Milwaukee&#8217;s County Stadium, the Brewers broke ground on a new stadium on\u00a0November 9, 1996, in a parking lot behind County Stadium, with plans to open the park for the 2000 season. \u00a0Construction was delayed in 1999 after a crane collapsed while lifting a 400-ton roof section, killing three workers. \u00a0This caused the opening to be delayed for a year, and the new Miller Park did not open until April 6, 2001. \u00a0In 2007, the stadium hosted an Indians series against the Angels after snow storms in Cleveland forced the cancellation of the previous series against the Mariners. \u00a0The Astros called Miller Park home for two games in 2008 when Hurricane Ike stormed through Houston.<\/p>\n<p>I made the first of my four visits to Miller Park during the inaugural season of 2001. \u00a0That May 7th contest had the Cubs squeaking out a 7-6 victory against the hosting Brewers. \u00a0This was my first experience with a retractable roof stadium and I enjoyed it. \u00a0Miller Park was a vastly superior replacement over County Stadium, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed each of my subsequent trips up to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name: Miller Park Location: Milwaukee Home Team: Brewers, Indians, Astros Years in Service:\u00a02001 &#8211; Present Visits: 4 After spending the first 26 years of their existence in Milwaukee&#8217;s County Stadium, the Brewers broke ground on a new stadium on\u00a0November 9, 1996, in a parking lot behind County Stadium, with plans to open the park [&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":[110,113,3843,614,120,115,124,600],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-bewers","tag-county-stadium","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-mariners","tag-miller-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}