{"id":6907,"date":"2012-01-20T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2012-01-20T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:32:46","slug":"faster_nostaligia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/faster_nostaligia.html","title":{"rendered":"Faster, Nostaligia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/queens\/out_of_left_field_W0tF7StMNbSi58UZRuhX1H\">The Mets&#8217; payroll depends on it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a decidedly odd online auction, the cash-strapped Mets are hawking seven separate chunks of the padded left-field wall, that&#8217;s been guarded by such &#8220;old-time&#8221; Amazin&#8217;s legends as Daniel Murphy and Jason Bay.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Citi Field&#8217;s nonhistoric left-field wall had always been 16 feet high, until the team decided to lower it eight feet in hopes of striking a more fair balance between pitchers and home-run hitters.<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be-auctioned wall chunks are made up of two or seven panels, each section about 4 feet wide and 8 feet tall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/citifield\/index.htm\">Citi Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets&#8217; payroll depends on it: In a decidedly odd online auction, the cash-strapped Mets are hawking seven separate chunks of the padded left-field wall, that&#8217;s been guarded by such &#8220;old-time&#8221; Amazin&#8217;s legends as Daniel Murphy and Jason Bay. . . . Citi Field&#8217;s nonhistoric left-field wall had always been 16 feet high, until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","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=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}