{"id":255,"date":"2002-12-05T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-11-29T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T17:21:22","slug":"tom-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Tom &#8230; Terrific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133\" alt=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The Mets pulled a mild shocker today by signing veteran enemy lefty Tom Glavine to a laughably rich deal. Hey, they&#8217;re better than they were yesterday. The Mets&#8217; first free-agent splash of the season also brings the first legitimate Uni-Controversy of the year: Glavine has spent his entire career wearing Number 47, digits that also hold significance for longtime Met mascot Super Joe McEwing. (Dec. 10 Update: As Glavine meets the press it comes as no surprise that sweatshops around the Tri-state area are busy stitching together GLAVINE 47 jerseys in time for the Holiday shopping season. McEwing was meanwhile spotted asking a department-store Santa for a new Uni number. Stay tuned).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets pulled a mild shocker today by signing veteran enemy lefty Tom Glavine to a laughably rich deal. Hey, they&#8217;re better than they were yesterday. The Mets&#8217; first free-agent splash of the season also brings the first legitimate Uni-Controversy of the year: Glavine has spent his entire career wearing Number 47, digits that also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom &#8230; Terrific?&#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":[1],"tags":[44,95],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-mcewing","tag-tom-glavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}