{"id":3113,"date":"2009-05-10T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2018-02-18T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:19:13","slug":"the-loss-wasnt-the-worst-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Things Could Always Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z051009broken_window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night the a bunch of the family met up in <strong>DeLand<\/strong> to see my nephew pitch for <strong>East Tennessee State University<\/strong> against <strong>Stetson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although hanging with the family was fun, the game didn&#8217;t go our way.\u00a0 <strong>Josh<\/strong> started as <strong>pitcher<\/strong> and went <strong>five innings<\/strong>.\u00a0 The score was <strong>4-2<\/strong> when he was relieved [and two of the runs came after errors].\u00a0 Things went pretty much downhill after that.\u00a0 <strong>ETSU<\/strong> went through <strong>four<\/strong> more <strong>pitchers<\/strong> as <strong>Stetson<\/strong> hammered in a total of <strong>19 runs<\/strong>.\u00a0 Final score <strong>Stetson 19, ETSU 4<\/strong>.\u00a0 Arrgh.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, when we went out into the parking lot we discovered that one of the foul balls hit out of the stadium had busted out <strong>Josh&#8217;s mom&#8217;s car&#8217;s back window<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sheesh!\u00a0 You can see that<strong> Joey <\/strong>was shocked at the look of his Aunt&#8217;s car!<\/p>\n<p>Still, the night did have it&#8217;s moments.\u00a0 It was fun hanging with family members.\u00a0 And <strong>Grandma Peggy<\/strong> came up with a few new ones:\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got more runs than a pair of my old hose&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>&#8220;That kid is swingin&#8217; like it&#8217;s the 60&#8217;s!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the a bunch of the family met up in DeLand to see my nephew pitch for East Tennessee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19943,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}