{"id":17834,"date":"2021-08-18T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:44:40","slug":"if-you-build-it-twice-will-they-still-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/if-you-build-it-twice-will-they-still-come\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Build It Twice, Will They Still Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16441\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD.jpg 960w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/FOD-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>Following last week&#8217;s inaugural Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, where the White Sox defeated the Yankees in thrilling fashion, word leaked that a second go-around would be slotted for the 2022 season, with the Cubs and the Reds on tap.\u00a0 Neither team has a direct tie to the movie, but both have tangential ties to either the movie or the area: the Reds were the opponents of the 1919 White Sox that were the focus of the film in the thrown World Series and the Cubs have located their Triple A franchise in Iowa since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Can the second installment reach the heights of the first?\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine.\u00a0 While the novelty of playing in a cornfield in Iowa will remain, the grandeur of having Kevin Costner lead the teams out of the cornfields in to the stadium may come of as hokey if it is done a second time.\u00a0 Given the success of the first game, a second was all but assured, but sometimes it is ok for a thing to just exist and be a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week&#8217;s inaugural Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, where the White Sox defeated the Yankees in thrilling fashion, word leaked that a second go-around would be slotted for the 2022 season, with the Cubs and the Reds on tap.\u00a0 Neither team has a direct tie to the movie, but both have tangential [&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":[2758,120,8448,8817,4865,53],"class_list":["post-17834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1919-world-series","tag-cubs","tag-field-of-dreams","tag-iowa-cubs","tag-kevin-costner","tag-reds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834","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=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17835,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions\/17835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}