{"id":3312,"date":"2023-04-02T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2023-04-02T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:50:00","slug":"opening-day-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/04\/opening-day-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Major League Baseball celebrated Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0Many years ago, I played on Opening Day. Not so many years ago, I coached on Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0In more recent years, I\u2019ve attended Opening Day games year after year.\u00a0\u00a0There is a life significance to Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0Here are a few of my favorite quotes about Opening Day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOpening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/22036-Mary_Schmich\">Mary Schmich<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen they start the game, they don&#8217;t yell, \u2018Work ball.\u2019 They say, \u2018Play ball.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/14019-Willie_Stargell\">Willie Stargell<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBaseball&#8217;s Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs&#8217; starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/13453-Rob_Sheffield\">Rob Sheffield<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/50574-George_Vecsey\">George Vecsey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn Opener is not like any other game. There&#8217;s that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. \u2026 You know that when you win the first one, you can&#8217;t lose &#8217;em all.\u201d Early Wynn<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt&#8217;s like Christmas, except it&#8217;s warmer.\u201d Pete Rose, on the thrill of Opening Day<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGuys, if we win this one, all we have to do is win the rest of \u2018em and we\u2019ll have a perfect season.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0One of my Little League Baseball Coaches, whose name I\u2019ve forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCommit your activities to the Lord, and your plans will be achieved.\u201d Proverbs 16:3, HCSB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Major League Baseball celebrated Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0Many years ago, I played on Opening Day. Not so many years ago, I coached on Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0In more recent years, I\u2019ve attended Opening Day games year after year.\u00a0\u00a0There is a life significance to Opening Day.\u00a0\u00a0Here are a few of my favorite quotes about Opening Day: \u201cOpening day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}