{"id":7649,"date":"2015-02-19T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T01:42:16","slug":"the-smell-of-spring-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/the-smell-of-spring-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smell Of Spring In The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/401523896_b972603e49_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-263 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/401523896_b972603e49_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/401523896_b972603e49_o.jpg 409w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/401523896_b972603e49_o-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a>As the mercury in Chicago broke records\u00a0today, both for the coldest low and the coldest high temperatures, summer appears to be close. \u00a0Spring training kicked off today with pitchers and catchers reporting for the Cubs, and the White Sox follow suit tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in several years, there is reason for hope on both sides of town. \u00a0To celebrate, I will be visiting both camps when I head out to Arizona next month. \u00a0By then, things should be pretty well shaken out and we should have a good idea of who will be heading north with both teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the mercury in Chicago broke records\u00a0today, both for the coldest low and the coldest high temperatures, summer appears to be close. \u00a0Spring training kicked off today with pitchers and catchers reporting for the Cubs, and the White Sox follow suit tomorrow. For the first time in several years, there is reason for hope on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,49],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/7650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}