{"id":6440,"date":"2010-05-27T06:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2010-05-27T06:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:46:48","slug":"direct-object-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/direct-object-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Object Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals are so desperate that they&#8217;re holding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20100526\/BREAKING02\/100526032\/Royals-holding-tryout-June-14-at-Meador-Park\" target=\"_blank\">open tryouts at a city park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something very underdoggish about baseball teams that are often futile.  I explained to my wife that the Royals are too often the direct object in the sports headlines (<em>Dodgers Pound Royals<\/em>, <em>Oakland Shuts Down Royals<\/em>, and so on), and the direct object teams don&#8217;t win pennants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals are so desperate that they&#8217;re holding open tryouts at a city park. There&#8217;s something very underdoggish about baseball teams that are often futile. I explained to my wife that the Royals are too often the direct object in the sports headlines (Dodgers Pound Royals, Oakland Shuts Down Royals, and so on), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}