{"id":217,"date":"2008-04-16T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-04-16T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:18:06","slug":"something-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Something Cheerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted in a week because I don&#8217;t know what to say. I was fairly certain that things would eventually go badly this year, but things went so immediately and overwhelmingly badly that jokes ain&#8217;t coming easy. But I found <a href=\"http:\/\/oakland.athletics.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080411&#038;content_id=2516051&#038;vkey=news_oak&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=oak\">this lovely anecdote about Devy<\/a>, who has been called up to the A&#8217;s, and thought I&#8217;d post it, to lift my own spirits if not anyone else&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Looks like he&#8217;s still getting dicked around by travel circumstances and prevailing &#8212; God bless you, Devy. If our bullpen is shit all year (which, yeah, not a stretch!), I will accept it as the curse of the albatross that we killed which was you. If that makes sense. <\/p>\n<p>Also uplifting: <a href=\"http:\/\/braveslove.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/cameras-are-always-rolling.html\">Heap taking off his pants in the dugout<\/a>. Disturbing, too, but still a sign of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted in a week because I don&#8217;t know what to say. I was fairly certain that things would eventually go badly this year, but things went so immediately and overwhelmingly badly that jokes ain&#8217;t coming easy. But I found this lovely anecdote about Devy, who has been called up to the A&#8217;s, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}