{"id":521,"date":"2005-05-24T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eekim.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/mays-field\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T20:57:00","slug":"mays-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/2005\/05\/mays-field\/","title":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"nidIRM\" id=\"nidIRM\"><\/a>When not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspirationtech.org\/\" class=\"extlink\">saving the world<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blueoxen.net\/wiki\/Allen_Gunn\">Allen Gunn<\/a> is working to save that   <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/sf\/ballpark\/index.jsp\" class=\"extlink\">beautiful ballpark by the Bay<\/a> from the naming whims of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbc.com\/\" class=\"extlink\">flaky telephone companies<\/a>.  He and several others have begun an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maysfield.org\/\" class=\"extlink\">initiative to rename the park<\/a>, &#8220;May&#8217;s Field,&#8221; after the Say-Hey kid himself.  As far as I can tell, the movement involves drinking beer and cheering for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com\/\" class=\"extlink\">Giants<\/a>.  Sadly, as the proud owner of both a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Lasorda\">Tommy Lasorda<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Garvey\">Steve Garvey<\/a> bobblehead doll, I&#8217;m incapable of performing the latter.  Nevertheless, I support this initiative wholeheartedly and hope you will as well.  Follow their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maysfield.org\/\" class=\"extlink\">blog<\/a> and subscribe to their  <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/MaysField\" class=\"extlink\">mailing list<\/a> for more information. &nbsp;&nbsp; <a class=\"nid\" title=\"IRM\" href=\"#nidIRM\">(IRM)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When not saving the world, Allen Gunn is working to save that beautiful ballpark by the Bay from the naming whims of flaky telephone companies. He and several others have begun an initiative to rename the park, &#8220;May&#8217;s Field,&#8221; after the Say-Hey kid himself. As far as I can tell, the movement involves drinking beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[85,1731,1861],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cTFX-8p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eekim.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}