{"id":2831,"date":"2007-10-03T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/a-rods_guilty_pleasures.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:09:35","slug":"arods_guilty_pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/arods_guilty_pl.html","title":{"rendered":"A-Rod&#8217;s Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something unnervingly unmanly about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/02\/sports\/baseball\/02yankees.html?ex=1349064000&#038;en=e0bf2138ffbd53d4&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">the idea that Alex Rodriguez gets pumped up by listening to Pat Benatar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s choice of music in spring training was perfectly fitting for his personality. As he prepared for the season, he played the Pat Benatar song &#8220;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&#8221; over and over, at high volume, in his earphones. The message was purposeful, motivational . . . and just a little forced.<\/p>\n<p>Knock me down, it&#8217;s all in vain, I&#8217;ll get right back on my feet again!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something unnervingly unmanly about the idea that Alex Rodriguez gets pumped up by listening to Pat Benatar: Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s choice of music in spring training was perfectly fitting for his personality. As he prepared for the season, he played the Pat Benatar song &#8220;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&#8221; over and over, at high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}