{"id":704,"date":"2008-08-23T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=704"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:18","slug":"the-boy-in-the-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/08\/the-boy-in-the-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy in the Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/61_yanks_final.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"nyt_61_yanks.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/nyt_61_yanks.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a piece I did for The New York Times this week. It is running in Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;The City&#8221; section (of the New York edition). The author Thomas R. Pryor waxes nostalgic about a day in 1961 when his father and uncles took him to see the Yankees play the Red Sox. One of his uncles knew Luis Arroyo, the pitcher, and the author got lifted over the fence to hang out in the bullpen, and was awestruck by the pinstriped giants. Art direction by the always agreeable Richard Weigand.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/61_yanks_final.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" caption=\"The Boy in the Bullpen\">Click for a larger view<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/24\/nyregion\/thecity\/24thir.html?_r=1&#038;ref=thecity' target='new'>Read the Essay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a piece I did for The New York Times this week. It is running in Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;The City&#8221; section (of the New York edition). The author Thomas R. Pryor waxes nostalgic about a day in 1961 when his father and uncles took him to see the Yankees play the Red Sox. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[110,44,91,112,63,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}