{"id":3400,"date":"2021-01-22T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2021-01-22T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:05:34","slug":"godspeed-hank-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"Godspeed Hank Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3399\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-768x1368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-862x1536.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-1149x2048.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-1200x2138.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210122_104914-scaled.jpg 1437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First ballgame, July 7, 1974<br>Braves vs. Cubs at Wrigley Field<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hank Aaron hits number 725 off a young Rick Reuschel. It would be his last home run at Wrigley. My father&#8217;s good friend, Dave Norman, from Atlanta who went with us bought me that Braves cap which I kept on my head every day for the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later when my father and I stated our HOF baseball collection, Hank Aaron graciously signed two balls for me. One went to my brother&#8217;s friend who was named for the Hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incredible career filled with grace and dignity.<br>Godspeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First ballgame, July 7, 1974Braves vs. Cubs at Wrigley Field Hank Aaron hits number 725 off a young Rick Reuschel. It would be his last home run at Wrigley. My father&#8217;s good friend, Dave Norman, from Atlanta who went with us bought me that Braves cap which I kept on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}