{"id":1815,"date":"2004-10-22T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:42:34","slug":"todd-schmidt-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Best World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/id\/3055064?GT1=5472\"> Which was the best World Series ever?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am having grammar trouble.  Schmidt chooses 6 of the series as &#8220;the best&#8221;.  I can&#8217;t write anymore.  I hate grammar.  Or, let&#8217;s say: I love grammar.  I just hate it when I forget all the rules.<\/p>\n<p>How does one express this?<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple World Series.  (Seems like there should be a plural there &#8230; but &#8220;series&#8221; is already plural &#8230; but each series of however many games is its own singular thing.)  Todd Schmidt has chosen 6 of the Series &#8230; (Please.  Someone re-word that sentence.  Now I want to throw my keyboard out the window.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  Who cares.  It&#8217;s really the World Series that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Schmidt lists (and discusses) the following Series:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; 2001: Diamondbacks def. Yankees, 4-3<br \/>\n&#8212; 1991: Twins def. Braves, 4-3<br \/>\n&#8212; 1986: Mets def. Red Sox, 4-3<br \/>\n&#8212; 1975: Reds def. Red Sox, 4-3<br \/>\n&#8212; 1960: Pirates def. Yankees, 4-3<br \/>\n&#8212; 1955: Dodgers def. Yankees, 4-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which was the best World Series ever? I am having grammar trouble. Schmidt chooses 6 of the series as &#8220;the best&#8221;. I can&#8217;t write anymore. I hate grammar. Or, let&#8217;s say: I love grammar. I just hate it when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1815\">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":[1],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17651,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/17651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}