{"id":3286,"date":"2020-04-26T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2020-04-26T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:08:27","slug":"meet-the-mets-beat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Mets, Beat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/>You may have seen Bobby Valentine do a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyValentine\/status\/1243954079656808449\">spirited performance<\/a> of &#8220;Meet the Mets recently. I&#8217;m not sure but that may have inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ztPatNHuQHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guy<\/a> who played the woodwinds and brass in a zoom show.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing I know my musician friend Kenny &#8220;tags&#8221; me in a #MeetTheMetsChallenge only this one has a COVID-19 charity associated. So while we suffer through a baseballess baseball season and with the world needing a lot more support for treatment and a cure than it&#8217;s getting, I got some help from my wife and son and performed the Subterranean Homesick Blues inspired version below and made a donation of Relief International, which isn&#8217;t just Satoru Komiyama&#8217;s job description but a charity. Consider yourself challenged!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0_wdf1LiaU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen Bobby Valentine do a spirited performance of &#8220;Meet the Mets recently. I&#8217;m not sure but that may have inspired this guy who played the woodwinds and brass in a zoom show. Next thing I know my musician friend Kenny &#8220;tags&#8221; me in a #MeetTheMetsChallenge only this one has a COVID-19 charity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Mets, Beat COVID-19&#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":[838],"tags":[459,43],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","tag-bobby-valentine","tag-satoru-komiyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}