{"id":1694,"date":"2004-09-19T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T20:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:22:50","slug":"11-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"11 to 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watch &#8230; I watch &#8230; I go with the flow, bad things happen, good things happen, and then it&#8217;s almost like I can SEE the wheels slip off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>3 innings before it&#8217;s over &#8230; I can see:  oh well, there it goes, buh-bye, it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note:<\/p>\n<p>I find there to be something almost orgasmic about a double play.  A triple play might cause me to die from ecstasy.  I watch a double play and I see perfection.  What I really see is this:  Years and years of hard work, struggle, sacrifice &#8230; suddenly manifesting in a one and a half second moment of total and utter ease.<\/p>\n<p>But still.  11 to 1.  GodDAMNit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch &#8230; I watch &#8230; I go with the flow, bad things happen, good things happen, and then it&#8217;s almost like I can SEE the wheels slip off the rails. 3 innings before it&#8217;s over &#8230; I can see: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17612,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}