{"id":3251,"date":"2014-03-15T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2014-03-15T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:57:05","slug":"saturday-five-31514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/15\/saturday-five-31514\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 3\/15\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent posts at ESPN.com: <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1iOBoC1>David Dahl&#8217;s new look<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/OoBVkC>Dee Gordon still can&#8217;t hit<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1iKoeKU>Braden Shipley showed a plus curveball<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1gpMNWg>Jose Abreu has a great swing<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1lSaGNE>Tom Gordon&#8217;s son, Nick, is a first-rounder<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1getu1A>This week&#8217;s Klawchat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, for the proper Saturday five:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/3\/10\/chiquita-merger-createsworldsbiggestbananacompany.html>On the merger of Chiquita and Fyffes<\/a> and what it means for the extinction of the Cavendish banana, from al-Jazeera.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/13\/opinion\/blow-bossy-pants.html?smid=re-share&#038;_r=1>On &#8220;bossy pants,&#8221; gender roles, abortion restrictions<\/a>, and too many other topics to list. It&#8217;s more thought-provoking than it is a piece likely to change anyone&#8217;s views, but maybe that&#8217;s what a good op ed column is supposed to do?\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sports\/2014\/03\/11\/3374801\/in-secret-senate-meeting-redskins-brass-nfl-commissioner-discuss-name-change\/#>Roger Goodell met with Sen. Maria Cantwell about the Washington team name<\/a> &#8211; and kept it secret. Can&#8217;t have anyone thinking they might be aware that the nickname is a racial slur, right?\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/3\/10\/ohio-earthquakeslinkedtofracking.html>Ohio earthquakes linked to fracking.<\/a> But did Chillicothe feel the earth move?\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/03\/06\/scientists-launch-pastry-into-stratosphere>Italian scientists launch cannoli into the stratosphere.<\/a> Because they could, I guess?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent posts at ESPN.com: * David Dahl&#8217;s new look * Dee Gordon still can&#8217;t hit * Braden Shipley showed a plus curveball * Jose Abreu has a great swing * Tom Gordon&#8217;s son, Nick, is a first-rounder * This week&#8217;s Klawchat And now, for the proper Saturday five: On the merger of Chiquita and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,660],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}