{"id":8914,"date":"2015-10-14T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:03:47","slug":"heading-to-the-lcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/heading-to-the-lcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading To The LCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8916\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg\" alt=\"FlyTheW\" width=\"561\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg 561w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a>For the first time since 2003, the Chicago Cubs are headed to the NLCS, having defeated the Cardinals in the NLDS in 4 games. \u00a0They await the winner of the Dodgers\/Mets series, who will host game 1 of the NLCS on Saturday. \u00a0The Cubs, who last appeared in the World Series in 1945, have never won an NLCS, losing in 1984, 1989, and, of course, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was also the first time in franchise history that the Cubs won a post-season series at home. \u00a0In 1907 and 1908, the team clinched their World Series victories in Detroit against the Tigers. \u00a0In 2003, the NLDS wrapped up in Atlanta, with the Cubs taking game 5 against the Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2003, the Chicago Cubs are headed to the NLCS, having defeated the Cardinals in the NLDS in 4 games. \u00a0They await the winner of the Dodgers\/Mets series, who will host game 1 of the NLCS on Saturday. \u00a0The Cubs, who last appeared in the World Series in 1945, have never [&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":[5691,5692,5919,125,57,120,116,261,1647,1646,230],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1907-world-series","tag-1908-world-series","tag-1945-world-series","tag-braves","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-mets","tag-nlcs","tag-nlds","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8918,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}