{"id":296,"date":"2003-03-25T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=296"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:02:17","slug":"first-time-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"First Time Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/77.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-163\" alt=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/77.gif\" width=\"57\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>After 40 years and almost 700 players, its rare to see a number issued for the first time anymore, but its possible the Mets will see not one but two first-timers in 2003: Tony Clark in 00 and Russ Johnson in 77. As a late invite to Spring Training, Clark took 00 because, papers said, the Mets were running out. We believe Johnson&#8217;s 77 is a religious thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years and almost 700 players, its rare to see a number issued for the first time anymore, but its possible the Mets will see not one but two first-timers in 2003: Tony Clark in 00 and Russ Johnson in 77. As a late invite to Spring Training, Clark took 00 because, papers said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Time Issues&#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":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}