{"id":7727,"date":"2010-10-23T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2010-10-23T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T04:32:52","slug":"going-to-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7727","title":{"rendered":"Going to the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I went out for a walk. It was dark and drizzling rain. A few cars whizzed by on the wet pavement, and aside from that it was quiet. Then I heard fireworks somewhere off to our right.&#8221;I wonder who&#8217;s having fireworks tonight?&#8221; I said. Then we heard fireworks in front of us. &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the Giants game,&#8221; said Carol. &#8220;Of course,&#8221; I said, &#8220;they must&#8217;ve won.&#8221; Later, a car full of people drove past us, the windows down in spite of the rain. The people in the car shouted something that sounded like &#8220;Wa waba!&#8221; A few minutes later another car drove by, an orange and black piece of cloth flapping out a rear window. When we got to downtown San Mateo, we could hear blaring horns and people shouting down along Fourth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/giants\/ci_16418606?source=rss&#038;nclick_check=1\">The Giants are going to the World Series, and people on the Peninsula are celebrating<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I went out for a walk. It was dark and drizzling rain. A few cars whizzed by on the wet pavement, and aside from that it was quiet. Then I heard fireworks somewhere off to our right.&#8221;I wonder who&#8217;s having fireworks tonight?&#8221; I said. Then we heard fireworks in front of us. &#8220;Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,451],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area","category-winter-wet-season","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}