{"id":150291,"date":"2022-11-03T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=150291"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:23:26","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-baseball-great-bob-feller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=150291","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Baseball Great Bob Feller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday&#8217;s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That&#8217;s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that&#8217;s the way baseball is.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m no hero. Heroes don&#8217;t come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I&#8217;m a hero, I&#8217;m not.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn&#8217;t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn&#8230; If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year&#8217;s time.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don&#8217;t say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Feller\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/220px-Bob_Feller_in_Navy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday&#8217;s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That&#8217;s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that&#8217;s the way baseball is.&#8221; ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 \u2013 December 15, 2010 &#8220;I&#8217;m no hero. Heroes don&#8217;t come back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150292,"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-150291","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\/11\/220px-Bob_Feller_in_Navy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150291","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=150291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150293,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150291\/revisions\/150293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}