{"id":29211,"date":"2021-11-15T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:34:37","slug":"theyre-no-trash-pandas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/theyre-no-trash-pandas\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re No Rocket City Trash Pandas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/2021\/11\/15\/beloit-snappers-minor-league-team-unveils-new-nickname\/8628363002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beloit Snappers minor-league baseball team finally unveils its new nickname<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A long-gestating rebrand is finally complete for the Beloit Snappers, who announced Monday that their new mascot would be the &#8220;Sky Carp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, a sky carp is a slang term for a goose that doesn&#8217;t migrate for the winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why did they change the name?  (He asked innocently, but since the article does not say why, he assumes it is because <em>Snapper<\/em> is also slang for something.)<\/p>\n<p>(As you might remember, gentle reader, the Rocket City Trash Pandas are my <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/my-new-favorite-minor-league-baseball-team\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">favorite minor league baseball team<\/a>, and it looks like they actually finally got to play this year.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beloit Snappers minor-league baseball team finally unveils its new nickname: A long-gestating rebrand is finally complete for the Beloit Snappers, who announced Monday that their new mascot would be the &#8220;Sky Carp.&#8221; Before you ask, a sky carp is a slang term for a goose that doesn&#8217;t migrate for the winter. So why did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29213,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions\/29213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}