{"id":155,"date":"2007-07-30T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:57:11","slug":"attention-atlanta-area-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Attention, Atlanta-Area Fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not particularly fond of Barry Bonds? Sick of having the game you&#8217;re trying to watch interrupted so that the network can show live footage of Bonds popping out to the catcher (I missed one of Heap&#8217;s at-bats yesterday for this! On TBS, too!)? Now you can fight back! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingchop.com\/story\/2007\/7\/29\/221931\/077\">Martin at Talking Chop has an excellent idea<\/a>: we should all wear head-to-toe black to the Giants series August 14-16, in mourning for our Hank&#8217;s legit accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>I think it would be a great statement not just about Bonds, but about Atlanta&#8217;s &#8220;Our Playoffs Don&#8217;t Sell Out!&#8221; fans showing up in big numbers to do something together. Spread the word! I&#8217;ll be there in black platform flip flops, maybe even holding a black posterboard sign with sparkly silver lettering: SHOULDA BEEN NICER TO HEAP AT THE A.S. GAME, BARRY, AT LEAST GRIFFEY TOOK THE TIME TO TALK TO HIM! &#8212; ah, or not, but I&#8217;ll be there, anyway, in black!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not particularly fond of Barry Bonds? Sick of having the game you&#8217;re trying to watch interrupted so that the network can show live footage of Bonds popping out to the catcher (I missed one of Heap&#8217;s at-bats yesterday for this! On TBS, too!)? Now you can fight back! Martin at Talking Chop has an excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}