{"id":146505,"date":"2022-08-30T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146505"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:50:22","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-ted-williams-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146505","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Ted Williams on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A man has to have goals &#8211; for a day, for a lifetime &#8211; and that was mine, to have people say, &#8216;There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'&#8221; ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 \u2013 July 5, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.&#8221; ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 \u2013 July 5, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.&#8221; ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 \u2013 July 5, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.&#8221; ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 \u2013 July 5, 2002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Williams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220px-Portrait_of_Boston_Red_Sox_legend_Ted_Williams_Sarasota_Florida.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220px-Portrait_of_Boston_Red_Sox_legend_Ted_Williams_Sarasota_Florida.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220px-Portrait_of_Boston_Red_Sox_legend_Ted_Williams_Sarasota_Florida-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A man has to have goals &#8211; for a day, for a lifetime &#8211; and that was mine, to have people say, &#8216;There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.&#8217;&#8221; ~ Theodore Samuel Williams, August 30, 1918 \u2013 July 5, 2002 &#8220;Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220px-Portrait_of_Boston_Red_Sox_legend_Ted_Williams_Sarasota_Florida.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146507,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146505\/revisions\/146507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}