{"id":279,"date":"2008-12-20T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-12-20T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:44:18","slug":"lunchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Lunchbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mlblunchbox.jpg' alt='mlblunchbox.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one of my favorite lunchboxes when I was a kid. This is probably around 1971, fourth grade. It came with a diamond on the back, magnetic baserunner markers, and a spinner, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/3157\">All-Star Baseball<\/a>. Probably the first baseball simulation I ever played, with friends after a PBJ and two-cent milk in the school cafeteria in Titusville.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe13.jpg' title='wpe13.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe13.thumbnail.jpg' alt='wpe13.jpg' \/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe16.jpg' title='wpe16.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe16.thumbnail.jpg' alt='wpe16.jpg' \/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe10a.jpg' title='wpe10a.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe10a.thumbnail.jpg' alt='wpe10a.jpg' \/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe10c.jpg' title='wpe10c.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wpe10c.thumbnail.jpg' alt='wpe10c.jpg' \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Just noticed that the positioning of the infielders on the diamond is dumb. They&#8217;ve got a shift on for a righty, but the batter bats lefty. Must&#8217;ve slipped past their fact checkers!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/keymancollectibles.com\/miscellaneous\/1968mlblunchbox.htm\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of my favorite lunchboxes when I was a kid. This is probably around 1971, fourth grade. It came with a diamond on the back, magnetic baserunner markers, and a spinner, a la All-Star Baseball. Probably the first baseball simulation I ever played, with friends after a PBJ and two-cent milk in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunchbox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}