{"id":7195,"date":"2012-05-02T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:13:55","slug":"we_are_all_mr_met_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/we_are_all_mr_met_now.html","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Mr. Met Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/mr-met-york-mets-iconic-mascot-rated-number-1-major-league-baseball-article-1.1070981\">Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey on the dirty little secret about Mr. Met<\/a>, which is that he doesn&#8217;t seem to do much of anything:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The longtime Flushing favorite was chosen as the nation&#8217;s No. 1 sports mascot based on his likeability, familiarity and several other factors.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[. . .] Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey was a bit surprised by the choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no scooter he rides,&#8221; Dickey said Tuesday. &#8220;He&#8217;s not breaking the other team&#8217;s helmet into pieces. Maybe the appeal is that he&#8217;s like everybody else. He walks around just like they do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/mrmet\/0804-10-08.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Met, New York Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies, Shea Stadium, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, April 10, 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/mrmet\/index.htm\">Mr. Met<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey on the dirty little secret about Mr. Met, which is that he doesn&#8217;t seem to do much of anything: The longtime Flushing favorite was chosen as the nation&#8217;s No. 1 sports mascot based on his likeability, familiarity and several other factors. . . . [. . .] Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}