{"id":6498,"date":"2012-07-04T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2016-02-07T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T16:04:16","slug":"on-catching-natitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6498","title":{"rendered":"On Catching Natitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom noticed something different about my Beetle today.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20120617_110752\"What’s the decal on your car?”<\/p>\n

“It’s a Washington Nationals decal. I picked it up at Big Lots a few weeks ago.”<\/p>\n

“Why?”<\/p>\n

I shrugged. “It was cheap.” True, it was only three dollars. And Big Lots had lots<\/i> of Nationals merchandise. Of course, they’ve had the same merchandise for three or four years and it just sits there, clogging up the shelf…<\/p>\n

“And this is Natstown, and I have Natitude.”<\/p>\n

“No, this is Birdland. You’re outside Baltimore, not DC. And anyway, what about the Cubs?”<\/p>\n

“The Cubs are my first love and my true love. The Nats are my local team. I’ve always considered the Nats my local team. I’m not some bandwagon jumper.”<\/p>\n

It also helps that the Cubs are having a terrible year, while the Nationals have a pretty damn good team — and a good story — this year, so I don’t feel that I’m being disloyal to the Cubs.<\/p>\n

She rolled her eyes. Or at least I imagine<\/i> she rolled her eyes. I didn’t really notice.<\/p>\n

Natitude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom noticed something different about my Beetle today. What’s the decal on your car?” “It’s a Washington Nationals decal. I picked it up at Big Lots a few weeks ago.” “Why?” I shrugged. “It was cheap.” True, it was only three dollars. And Big Lots had lots of Nationals merchandise. Of course, they’ve hadContinue reading “On Catching Natitude”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-washington-nationals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}