{"id":4667,"date":"2009-10-07T00:16:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2009-10-07T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:16:47","slug":"hokkaido-nippon-ham-fighters-take-pacific-league-pennant-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"HOKKAIDO NIPPON HAM FIGHTERS TAKE PACIFIC LEAGUE PENNANT AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0Just something quick to say:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONGRATULATIONS HOKKAIDO NIPPON HAM FIGHTERS!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PACIFIC LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I watched as they took the Pacific League Pennant (their third time since moving up here, what was it, six years ago?) in a Fighters sports bar. \u00a0Extra innings, they took it 5 to 4 shortly after hearing that Rakuten just lost (giving them the pennant anyway).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a marvelous team, fun to watch, cheery and fan-based (they win most of their home games), great last innings every game, and a number of stars. \u00a0It&#8217;s like the Fish that Saved Pittsburgh &#8212; rallies our island no matter how desperate the economics becomes. \u00a0Good show, all.<\/p>\n<p>Arudou Debito in Fighters home base Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0Just something quick to say: CONGRATULATIONS HOKKAIDO NIPPON HAM FIGHTERS!! PACIFIC LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2009 I watched as they took the Pacific League Pennant (their third time since moving up here, what was it, six years ago?) in a Fighters sports bar. \u00a0Extra innings, they took it 5 to 4 shortly after hearing that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}