{"id":7006,"date":"2013-07-25T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2013-07-25T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:50:16","slug":"on-not-being-a-nationals-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=7006","title":{"rendered":"On Not Being a Nationals Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Twitter two days ago, I was called “a Nationals blogger<\/a>.” By Nationals, meaning the Washington Nationals, of course.<\/p>\n

I am not a Nationals blogger. Don’t think of myself that way at all. But I was also thrilled that someone else would think of me in that way. Nationals blogger.<\/p>\n

I have, however, made some fanposts at Federal Baseball<\/a>, the SB Nation website devoted to the Nationals this year. Of those posts, two were promoted as “Recommended Posts,” and one more was promoted to the main story stream. So, in regard, maybe I am a Nationals blogger.<\/p>\n

My posts have been mainly about the Harrisburg Senators, the Nationals’ AA minor league team in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’ve written thus far this season:<\/p>\n

May 26: My First Harrisburg Senators Game<\/a>
\nJune 13: An Oasis of Natitude Along the Banks of the Susquehanna<\/a>
\nJune 18: Received Today, a Senators Strasburg Jersey<\/a>
\nJuly 18: Meet Octavio Martinez, Nationals Bullpen Catcher<\/a>
\nJuly 18: Hey Senators!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Twitter two days ago, I was called “a Nationals blogger.” By Nationals, meaning the Washington Nationals, of course. I am not a Nationals blogger. Don’t think of myself that way at all. But I was also thrilled that someone else would think of me in that way. Nationals blogger. I have, however, made someContinue reading “On Not Being a Nationals Blogger”<\/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":[22,284,24],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-harrisburg-senators","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-washington-nationals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","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=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}