{"id":663,"date":"2005-11-25T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=663"},"modified":"2005-11-26T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T08:48:34","slug":"as-the-chill-rains-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"As the Chill Rains Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a quote today from former baseball commissioner, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, talking about baseball, words that apply equally to fastball, especially during this off season:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is designed to break your heart.   The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings,<br \/>\nand then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a quote today from former baseball commissioner, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, talking about baseball, words that apply equally to fastball, especially during this off season: &#8220;It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}