{"id":352198,"date":"2014-04-08T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/?p=352198"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:35:38","slug":"you-gotta-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/you-gotta-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Love It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tonykemp55052913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-352364\" alt=\"tonykemp55052913\" src=\"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tonykemp55052913-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tonykemp55052913-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tonykemp55052913-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tonykemp55052913.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The price of becoming a great player and having a great season is LOVE. The truly great ones LOVE all aspects of baseball (practice, conditioning, cage work, blocking drills for catchers, and flatland\/ bull pens for pitchers). The LOVE keeps you going even though you may be playing in hard luck or whether you are stuck in a slump. When the going gets tough, say to yourself, &#8220;I love this game. There is no better place to be than on the field. I love this moment!&#8221; Players that don&#8217;t love this game and everything that goes with it don&#8217;t last. This is a game that is filled with failure to constantly test your love. Great hitters fail 7 out of 10 times. The LOVE of the game keeps them coming back for more. BASEBALL: EVERY YOUNG BOY&#8217;S DREAM, EVERY OLD MAN&#8217;S FONDEST MEMORY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of becoming a great player and having a great season is LOVE. The truly great ones LOVE all aspects of baseball (practice, conditioning, cage work, blocking drills for catchers, and flatland\/ bull pens for pitchers). The LOVE keeps &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/you-gotta-love-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352365,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352198\/revisions\/352365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skipsjoberg.com\/knights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}