{"id":173,"date":"2007-09-09T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2007-09-09T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T15:33:45","slug":"behold-the-power-of-little-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Behold The Power of Little Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m posting this every day until we lose:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/littleedgarsm.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It could be the power of the Nationals (or lack thereof) that is allowing us to win, but weren&#8217;t they on a five game winning streak before they came to Atlanta? Haven&#8217;t they been getting more press cred than the Braves all year, for outshining expectations? I continue to have faith in Little Edgar. He&#8217;s at least put some kind of powerful curse on Zimmerman&#8217;s throwing arm. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cute picture of Frenchy and Heap (and Yates) as well, for good measure:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/heapfrenchy0908.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Labor Day weekend was a nightmare (remember the game where Howard hit three off of Huddy?), but afterward I was able to enjoy the rest of the season. The same thing seems to be happening this year &#8212; I&#8217;m watching the games without dread this week &#8212; but we&#8217;re not quite as dead in the water as we were in 2006. Today is Bark in the Park day, so I estimate about 19,309 more Lance Barksdale jokes from Chip. I just hope Skip shows up today &#8212; where has he been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m posting this every day until we lose: It could be the power of the Nationals (or lack thereof) that is allowing us to win, but weren&#8217;t they on a five game winning streak before they came to Atlanta? Haven&#8217;t they been getting more press cred than the Braves all year, for outshining expectations? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}