{"id":1484,"date":"2005-10-03T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/03\/end-of-an-era\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:07:00","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/03\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=Arial size=2>As the last of the fireworks exploded, and my  family and I walked out of Busch Stadium yesterday, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel  like I was losing a part of myself.&nbsp;&nbsp;Professional baseball  stadiums&nbsp;shouldn&#8217;t rank very high on the list of significant losses in our  lives.&nbsp; I understand that.&nbsp; Still, many of the most exciting moments  of my life are kept in a ballpark that will be torn down a few days after the  Cardinals finish their season this year.&nbsp; These include: watching Vince  Coleman stealing bases at will, Ozzie Smith doing a back flip&nbsp;each opening  day.&nbsp; Jim Edmonds robbing an opponent of an extra-base hit with a  spectacular catch, standing in awe as Mark McGwire hit a 565 ft. home run, and  recently cheering wildly as David Eckstein hit a grand slam to win the  game.&nbsp; The list could go on and on.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2>Being able to attend the last regular-season game  at Busch Stadium was a thrill.&nbsp; Thanks again to my wife, Erin, for those  tickets.&nbsp; In my life, Busch Stadium went from being an imposing home of  heroes, to a comfortable place where men played baseball at the highest  level.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am&nbsp;looking forward going to games in the new stadium,  though.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure it will be great.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; Maybe we&#8217;ll even  have a new World Championship flag to fly there.&nbsp; For now&#8230; good-bye Busch  Stadium.&nbsp; Thanks for everything.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2>-Go Cards!<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">As the last of the fireworks exploded, and my family and I walked out of Busch Stadium yesterday, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel like I was losing a part of myself.&nbsp;&nbsp;Professional baseball stadiums&nbsp;shouldn&#8217;t rank very high on the list of significant losses in our lives.&nbsp; I understand that.&nbsp; Still, many of the most exciting moments&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/03\/end-of-an-era\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}