{"id":3492,"date":"2005-07-25T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T01:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/25\/as-ascending\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T01:34:34","slug":"as-ascending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/as-ascending\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s ascending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;m sure you heard yesterday that the A&#8217;s have climbed into a tie with the Twins for the AL Wild Card after being <a href=\"http:\/\/oakland.athletics.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20050724&#038;content_id=1143486&#038;vkey=recap&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=oak\">left for dead a few weeks ago:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How well are the A&#8217;s playing right now? They&#8217;ve won six in a row, 12 of 14, and 22 of 27 to climb a season-high eight games over .500.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they&#8217;ve also pulled into a tie with Minnesota for the American League Wild Card lead. Seven weeks ago, they were 12 1\/2 games back in that race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re now only 5 1\/2 games behind the evil Anheim Angel-Yankees. I don&#8217;t know what sort of a deal Arte Moreno signed with the Devil, but experience says the A&#8217;s will be in the playoffs again.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you heard yesterday that the A&#8217;s have climbed into a tie with the Twins for the AL Wild Card after being left for dead a few weeks ago: How well are the A&#8217;s playing right now? They&#8217;ve won six in a row, 12 of 14, and 22 of 27 to climb a season-high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/as-ascending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A&#8217;s ascending&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Uk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}