{"id":327,"date":"2008-04-12T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/327"},"modified":"2008-04-29T03:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T07:21:46","slug":"worst-rain-delay-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/worst-rain-delay-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Rain Delay Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I went to the Sox-Yankees game this afternoon.  At first I thought the game would be rained out, then I thought it would be wet, then the sun came out.  Shows what I know.  It was very humid &#8211; dank, really.  The temperature was in the 50s, but the air was hazy and you could see your breath.  It was odd.<a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_0650.jpg\" title=\"img_0650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_0650.jpg\" alt=\"img_0650.jpg\" width=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then a few raindrops fell in the 8th inning.  With 7 outs until the end of the game, they decided to run from a rainshower.  The tarp came out, and the game stopped. We spent the next hour wondering why the game wasn&#8217;t already over, staring at a damp-but-totally-playable field.  I stood there and shouted for them to start the game, but no one was listening to me.  Shocking, I know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to a lot of games and waited out a number of rain delays.  This one was the worst.  It shouldn&#8217;t have happened &#8211; they should have played.  I was so annoyed I gave up and went home.  I listened to the Red Sox wrap it up on the radio, still swearing at the stupid rain delay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_0660.jpg\" title=\"img_0660.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_0660.jpg\" alt=\"img_0660.jpg\" width=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Sox-Yankees game this afternoon. At first I thought the game would be rained out, then I thought it would be wet, then the sun came out. Shows what I know. It was very humid &#8211; dank, really. The temperature was in the 50s, but the air was hazy and you could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}