{"id":8225,"date":"2012-02-19T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2019-04-03T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:23:48","slug":"lost-and-found-at-the-polo-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8225","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found at the Polo Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JPSPRING1-jumbo.jpg?resize=800%2C527&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8226\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Times has a nice story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/20\/sports\/baseball\/remembering-the-mets-first-spring-in-1962.html?_r=1&amp;ref=sports\">about the early Mets today<\/a>. And it\u2019s especially nice for me on the first anniversary of my father&#8217;s death. One of my earliest memories is him taking me to the Polo Grounds in 1962 or 1963. I don&#8217;t remember much about the game except the great name of the Mets&#8217; catcher, Choo-Choo Coleman. And I remember how green everything seemed to be from the stands to the field.<br><br>And there was a brief moment\u2014probably no more than ten seconds that felt like ten hours to me\u2014when we got separated in the crowd after the game. I\u2019ll never forget the enormous relief I felt when he grabbed my hand and I looked up to see him. <br><br>He could always make me feel safe. And that&#8217;s perhaps the most important thing any parent can do for their child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has a nice story about the early Mets today. And it\u2019s especially nice for me on the first anniversary of my father&#8217;s death. One of my earliest memories is him taking me to the Polo Grounds in 1962 or 1963. I don&#8217;t remember much about the game except the great name of the Mets&#8217; catcher, Choo-Choo Coleman. And I remember how green everything seemed to be from the stands to the field. And there was a brief moment\u2014probably no more than ten seconds that felt like ten hours to me\u2014when we got separated in the crowd after the game. I\u2019ll never forget the enormous relief I felt when he grabbed my hand and I looked up to see him. He could always make me feel safe. And that&#8217;s perhaps the most important thing any parent can do for their child. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8225\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":8226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-me","category-family-stories","category-sports","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JPSPRING1-jumbo.jpg?fit=1024%2C890&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-28F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}