{"id":1547,"date":"2006-03-08T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/03\/08\/remembering-kirby\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T15:47:00","slug":"remembering-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/03\/08\/remembering-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2296\/1434\/1600\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2296\/1434\/200\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Growing up in the late 80&#8217;s in Minnesota, I (Orin) remember a lot of MN Twins baseball, especially the &#8217;87 and &#8217;91 championships.  Kirby Pucket, who just passed away, was a big part of those teams.<\/p>\n<p>We might all remember the stadium announcer introducing him as Kirbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Pucket!  And the exciting ends (and those leaping catches at the wall) to those world series games (in &#8217;87, against Shannon&#8217;s STL Cardinals).<\/p>\n<p>He may not have been off-the-field the best role model at times, but still, as an icon of my youth, I thought he deserved a mention here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Growing up in the late 80&#8217;s in Minnesota, I (Orin) remember a lot of MN Twins baseball, especially the &#8217;87 and &#8217;91 championships. Kirby Pucket, who just passed away, was a big part of those teams. We might all remember the stadium announcer introducing him as Kirbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Pucket! And the exciting ends (and those leaping&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/03\/08\/remembering-kirby\/\">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-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}