{"id":1744,"date":"2011-11-17T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2013-12-14T18:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:16:24","slug":"solid-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Solid Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/Mets50logo.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"303\" \/>As a longtime critic of the Mets&#8217; questionable senses of fashion and self-awareness I feel obligated to tip my (blue-and-orange only) cap to what appears so far to be a thoughtful and tasteful approach to the team&#8217;s 50th anniversary as revealed yesterday. Uni fans know the info by now I&#8217;m sure, but they&#8217;re dropping the black drop shadows and black hats for 2012 (hopefully the butt-ugly two-toned batting helmets go along with them, as I&#8217;ve long felt nothing looks any worse). They said they&#8217;d use the black alternate jerseys for selected away games only; and introduced a series of events dedicated to acknowledging team history including a return of<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20111116&amp;content_id=25988186&amp;vkey=news_nym&amp;c_id=nym\">Banner Day<\/a>, decade-themed bobblehead giveaways, and the anniversary patch\/logo pictured above. Let&#8217;s Go Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a longtime critic of the Mets&#8217; questionable senses of fashion and self-awareness I feel obligated to tip my (blue-and-orange only) cap to what appears so far to be a thoughtful and tasteful approach to the team&#8217;s 50th anniversary as revealed yesterday. Uni fans know the info by now I&#8217;m sure, but they&#8217;re dropping the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solid Gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-uniform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}