{"id":17181,"date":"2021-03-09T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17181"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:14:01","slug":"the-fans-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-fans-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fans Are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/openingday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15884\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/openingday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/openingday.jpg 656w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/openingday-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>After a year with no fans in the stands due to the corona virus, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced yesterday that fans can return for 2021 starting on Opening Day with 20% capacity.\u00a0 That will put 8,122 fans at Guaranteed Rate Field when the White Sox open their home season on April 8th and 8,274 fans at Wrigley Field when the Cubs start their season on April 1.\u00a0 Fans will still be required to wear masks and\u00a0there must be at least six feet between groups in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams plan to limit sales to season ticket holders initially, before moving out to the general public.\u00a0 In an email to season ticket holders, the Cubs announced that April games will be either refunded or credited, with an option to purchase single game tickets in pods of one through four people spread throughout the ballpark, including reserved seating in the bleachers.\u00a0 The White Sox have not released specific information yet, though\u00a0 I imagine my 19 year White Sox Opening Day streak is in jeopardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year with no fans in the stands due to the corona virus, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced yesterday that fans can return for 2021 starting on Opening Day with 20% capacity.\u00a0 That will put 8,122 fans at Guaranteed Rate Field when the White Sox open their home season on April 8th and 8,274 [&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":[8844,120,6917,9322,49,595],"class_list":["post-17181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-lori-lightfoot","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181","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=17181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17184,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions\/17184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}