{"id":8742,"date":"2016-10-23T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/10\/23\/on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:07:31","slug":"on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"On Baseball&#039;s Biggest Stage, 2 Lovable Losers Square Off To Become The Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499077088\/on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">David Schaper<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>This week, the World Series features two of professional sports&#8217; most famously hapless franchises: the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. Both teams have gone decades without a championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499077088\/on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"On Baseball&#039;s Biggest Stage, 2 Lovable Losers Square Off To Become The Champ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499077088\/on-baseballs-biggest-stage-2-lovable-losers-square-off-to-become-the-champ?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the World Series features two of professional sports&#8217; most famously hapless franchises: the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. Both teams have gone decades without a championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}