{"id":198,"date":"2013-06-06T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:43:49","slug":"first-umpiring-job-was-just-too-much-for-local-ump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"First umpiring job was just too much for local ump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Quote of the day<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I reported to (Navy) duty at Bangor from San Diego in 1987 and they (the Peninsula Umpires Association) told me I had this assignment and I started thinking about it and psyched myself out. Sometimes your nerves get the best of you. I just basically shot myself in the foot. I called them up the day before the assignment and told them I couldn\u2019t do it. Nobody remembers it now, and I moved on.\u201d \u2013 Bob Theal, board member of the Peninsula Umpires Association, remembering how he got so nervous about his first assignment as an umpire that he just couldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day I reported to (Navy) duty at Bangor from San Diego in 1987 and they (the Peninsula&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}