{"id":8002,"date":"2015-04-26T08:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2015-04-26T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:42:39","slug":"book-13-of-52-paul-konerko-farewell-to-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/book-13-of-52-paul-konerko-farewell-to-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 13 (of 52) &#8211; Paul Konerko: Farewell To A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8003\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/konerko1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/konerko1280.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Konerko: Farewell To A Friend - Scott Reifert\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/konerko1280.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/konerko1280-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Konerko: Farewell To A Friend &#8211; Scott Reifert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the retirement of Paul Konerko last fall, the White Sox put together a book, edited by Scott Reifert, to celebrate their longtime first baseman and raise money for Chicago White Sox Charities.\u00a0 To be honest, there wasn&#8217;t much reading to be done with this book, as it was mostly pictures along with a few short articles.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Konerko meant a lot to the White Sox and its fan base over the past 16 years, which I covered <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/o-captain-my-captain\/\">last fall<\/a> as he retired.\u00a0 This book sums up his last weekend, while also hitting on a few of the highpoints of his career, especially the run to the 2005 World Series championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the retirement of Paul Konerko last fall, the White Sox put together a book, edited by Scott Reifert, to celebrate their longtime first baseman and raise money for Chicago White Sox Charities.\u00a0 To be honest, there wasn&#8217;t much reading to be done with this book, as it was mostly pictures along with a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34],"tags":[78,5576,127,5575,49],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-2005-world-series","tag-chicago-white-sox-charities","tag-paul-konerko","tag-scott-reifert","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}