{"id":938,"date":"2008-05-20T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=938"},"modified":"2013-12-01T03:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T03:26:23","slug":"we-salute-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"We Salute You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/piazzaupsidedown.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"318\" \/>Congratulations to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/piazza-mike\">Mike Piazza<\/a>\u00a0on a great career and best wishes for a happy retirement, but the Mets didn&#8217;t necessarily have to take the whole day off for you.<\/p>\n<p>As readers of the site know, I tend to think too much attention is given to number retirement and not enough attention to the idea of the number as a tradition to be passed along, but I certainly can&#8217;t imagine Mets could get away with issuing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/31\">No. 31\u00a0<\/a>again anytime soon. And it&#8217;s not hard to come up with an argument for Piazza&#8217;s credentials, so let&#8217;s bring it on&#8230; in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Mike Piazza\u00a0on a great career and best wishes for a happy retirement, but the Mets didn&#8217;t necessarily have to take the whole day off for you. As readers of the site know, I tend to think too much attention is given to number retirement and not enough attention to the idea of the number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Salute You&#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":[111],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-piazza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}