{"id":1286,"date":"2012-08-13T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:04:23","slug":"rip-johnny-pesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/rip-johnny-pesky\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Johnny Pesky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad day for Red Sox Nation. \u00c2\u00a0In honor of the man who didn’t hold the ball, I’m reposting the deleted “lost” chapter to Timely Persuasion<\/em> set at the 1946 World Series, plus the accompanying commentary.<\/p>\n

Deleted Scenes: Pesky Held the Ball?<\/a><\/p>\n

Commentary 7.5: Seven and a Half Cents<\/a><\/p>\n

So long, #6. \u00c2\u00a0This one’s for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad day for Red Sox Nation. \u00c2\u00a0In honor of the man who didn’t hold the ball, I’m reposting the deleted “lost” chapter to Timely Persuasion set at the 1946 World Series, plus the accompanying commentary. Deleted Scenes: Pesky Held the Ball? Commentary 7.5: Seven and a Half Cents So long, #6. \u00c2\u00a0This one’s for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-kK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":164,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/johnny-pesky\/","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":0},"title":"Johnny Pesky","author":"LBDG","date":"September 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of Johnny Pesky having his number retired at Fenway (originally scheduled for today; now moved to Sunday due to rain), I thought it was appropriate to repost the Pesky related \"lost chapter\" and associated commentary here today.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy! 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