{"id":863,"date":"2007-03-22T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2007-03-22T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T15:38:02","slug":"run-for-the-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Run for the Border(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of free time between dinner and a work meeting, so I wandered into the Borders bookstore in downtown Indy. Kinda cramped, but pretty cool place, too. After reading the employee suggestions of the month included a guy named &#8220;Mookie&#8221; who likened some new band to The Killers, but more importantly was wearing a Hurricanes Eastern Conference Champions t-shirt. I like Mookie. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the real humor of the visit came in the stacks of &#8220;Dummies&#8221; books that were not only 30% off, but included a $5 mail-in rebate (which made for a pretty tempting offer, even for someone that&#8217;s not generally a &#8220;dummy&#8221;, no matter how much I act like one sometimes). But I figured I couldn&#8217;t possibly be the only one that found the humorous irony in &#8220;Baseball for Dummies&#8221; being co-written by ESPN&#8217;s Joe Morgan:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0764552341.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Morgan for Dummies\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of free time between dinner and a work meeting, so I wandered into the Borders bookstore in downtown Indy. Kinda cramped, but pretty cool place, too. After reading the employee suggestions of the month included a guy named &#8220;Mookie&#8221; who likened some new band to The Killers, but more importantly was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Run for the Border(s)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}