{"id":5,"date":"2007-01-28T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2007-08-01T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T16:40:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>About me:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Great thing happened today. Police arrested a twenty-three year old blonde who had climbed a tree outside our clubhouse and was peeping in at us in the shower. A female beaver-shooter.<\/i> &#8211;Jim Bouton<\/p>\n<p><b>About this blog:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Velcro Vernacular is named for Jeff Francoeur&#8217;s batting gloves, which have a Bible verse printed across the velcro strap:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/gloves2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sports marketing is a big interest of mine, especially where the marketing efforts of the franchise, the individual players and reality intersect. Eventually I hope to discuss the marketing investments and issues of my Atlanta Braves here, but until then I&#8217;ll be complaining about the overuse of lefty-righty platooning and posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/heapgirl.jpg\">funny pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingchop.com\/user\/Velcro%20Vernacular\">write for Talking Chop<\/a> on a regular basis, so check out my stuff over there, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About me: Great thing happened today. Police arrested a twenty-three year old blonde who had climbed a tree outside our clubhouse and was peeping in at us in the shower. A female beaver-shooter. &#8211;Jim Bouton About this blog: Velcro Vernacular is named for Jeff Francoeur&#8217;s batting gloves, which have a Bible verse printed across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}