{"id":172665,"date":"2024-02-06T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172665"},"modified":"2024-02-06T11:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:56:29","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-babe-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172665","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Babe Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York, NY…George Herman “Babe” Ruth, February 6, 1895 \u2013 August 16, 1948. Homerun King, “The Bambino” & “The Sultan of Swat”.<\/p>\n

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“I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.”<\/p>\n

“Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.”<\/p>\n

“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”<\/p>\n

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”<\/p>\n

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”<\/p>\n

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York, NY…George Herman “Babe” Ruth, February 6, 1895 \u2013 August 16, 1948. Homerun King, “The Bambino” & “The Sultan of Swat”. “I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172670,"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-172665","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\/2024\/02\/Babe_Ruth2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172665","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=172665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172671,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172665\/revisions\/172671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}