{"id":352,"date":"2009-10-09T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:20:01","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Sarah&#8217;s home &#8211; She&#8217;s been away at a conference. No fun being alone. The kitties didn&#8217;t like it either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0MLB umpires\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; It&#8217;s time to expand instant replay in baseball. Too many totally missed calls by the umps. I&#8217;m not talking about balls and strikes, although that&#8217;s bad enough. But the missed calls for baserunning and foul\/fair is\u00c2\u00a0changing the\u00c2\u00a0natural progression of the post-season games. If the umps like CB Bucknor continue to\u00c2\u00a0badly\u00c2\u00a0miss calls, it&#8217;s time to bring technology into the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Weekends &#8211; Gawd, I need this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Red Sox &#8211; Great time for an offensive slump. They look pathetic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 AAA &#8211; Talk about a great deal. For a few bucks\u00c2\u00a0a year you get towing, travel advice, and you can walk in and get an International Driver&#8217;s Permit (IDP) in about 10 minutes. Good deal all around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Sarah&#8217;s home &#8211; She&#8217;s been away at a conference. No fun being alone. The kitties didn&#8217;t like it either. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0MLB umpires\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; It&#8217;s time to expand instant replay in baseball. Too many totally missed calls by the umps. I&#8217;m not talking about balls and strikes, although that&#8217;s bad enough. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-family","category-sports","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}