{"id":1288,"date":"2014-07-22T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:06:23","slug":"another-anniversary-belatedly-noted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-anniversary-belatedly-noted\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Anniversary Belatedly Noted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-anniversary-belatedly-noted\/\" data-text=\"Another Anniversary Belatedly Noted\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Recently observed was the 45th Anniversary of Hall of Fame Pitcher Gaylor Perry&#8217;s first career home run. \u00a0Why do we care? \u00a0Because it&#8217;s a great story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/sports\/baseball\/perry.asp\" target=\"_blank\">too good not to be true.<\/a> \u00a0<em><strong>Legend has it<\/strong><\/em> that sometime after Perry joind the San Francisco Giants as a rookie in 1962, an unamed sports writer and Giants Manager Alvin Dark were having a conversation near the batting cage while the rookie Perry took batting practice. \u00a0As Perry sprayed line drives all over the diamond, the writer remarked to Dark &#8220;that Perry kid&#8217;s got some pop in his bat&#8221;, to which Dark replied &#8220;there will be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Years passed, Perry was embarked on a fantastic pitching career, Alvin Dark had moved on to manage the Cleveland Indians. \u00a0On July 21, 1969 the San Francisco Giants were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers &#8211; when Neal Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, it was announced to the fans in attendance. \u00a0About 20 minutes later, Gaylord Perry came up to bat and &#8230;.hit his first career home run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Recently observed was the 45th Anniversary of Hall of Fame Pitcher Gaylor Perry&#8217;s first career home run. \u00a0Why do we care? \u00a0Because it&#8217;s a great story, too good not to be true. \u00a0Legend has it that sometime after Perry joind the San Francisco Giants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}