{"id":8589,"date":"2015-08-21T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2015-08-20T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:06:08","slug":"playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/playoffs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015playoffs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8591\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015playoffs.jpg\" alt=\"2015playoffs\" width=\"582\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015playoffs.jpg 582w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015playoffs-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a>For the first time since 2012, a Chicago team is in position to start selling playoff tickets to their season ticket holders. \u00a0The Cubs hold a slight lead on the second wild card and are preparing for their first post-season appearance since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a randomly selected combination assignment, I would end up with tickets to a home Wild Card game, should the Cubs overtake the Pirates, all Division Series home games, the first 2 home games of the Championship series, and games 3 and 4 of the World Series. \u00a0Unlike past playoff appearances, it seems I would have my normal tickets for the entire run.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs still have some work to do on the field to make sure all this preparation isn&#8217;t for naught, but the organization is starting to reap the benefits of the years of work starting with the hiring of Theo Epstein in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2012, a Chicago team is in position to start selling playoff tickets to their season ticket holders. \u00a0The Cubs hold a slight lead on the second wild card and are preparing for their first post-season appearance since 2008. Thanks to a randomly selected combination assignment, I would end up with [&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":[120,2511,2193],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-playoffs","tag-theo-epstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}