{"id":15839,"date":"2020-03-12T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15839"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:07:28","slug":"its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The End Of The World As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15840\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg 750w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this afternoon,\u00a0Major League Baseball suspended the remainder of spring training and delayed the start of the season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0 Instead of the March 26th openers, the earliest the season would kick off would be April 9.\u00a0 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker\u00a0said he had talked with owners of Chicago\u2019s major sports teams and asked them to cancel games until May 1 or play without spectators.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the suspension of the NBA season last night following Utah Jazz center\u00a0Rudy Gobert testing positive for the virus prior to the team&#8217;s game in Oklahoma City against the Thunder.\u00a0 On the college scene, the Big Ten Tournament was cancelled earlier this morning, followed by the entire NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, this means I won&#8217;t be going to opening day for the White Sox in two weeks or the Cubs home opener the following Monday.\u00a0 It also puts my trip to Boston the following weekend in doubt, as the White Sox v Red Sox tilt at Fenway Park will not be taking place and Angelina may not be back at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon,\u00a0Major League Baseball suspended the remainder of spring training and delayed the start of the season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0 Instead of the March 26th openers, the earliest the season would kick off would be April 9.\u00a0 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker\u00a0said he had talked with owners of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,568],"tags":[275,5520,8844,120,1663,8840,8841,2244,1527,258,8843,8842,49],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-basketball","tag-arm","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-fenway-park","tag-governor-pritzken","tag-jazz","tag-mlb","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-red-sox","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-thunder","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15841,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions\/15841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}