{"id":1142,"date":"2018-05-14T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2018-05-14T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:49:19","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-blue-42-by-giani-rodrigues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/the-mystery-of-the-blue-42-by-giani-rodrigues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Blue 42 by Giani Rodrigues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-2\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1142\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-heart\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mystery of the Blue 42<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By: Giani Rodrigues<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever pass by Fenway, and wonder: Why is the number 42 blue? Well, you gotta know some basic baseball before I can tell you. Number One: Each number represents a player\u2019s number. And number 42 was Jackie Robinson\u2019s number. Number Two: The first african american to play in the MLB, was, you guessed it. Jackie Robinson. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might be wondering why I\u2019m telling you all this stuff about Jackie. But what you don\u2019t know is the connection between 42 and Jackie Robinson. For starters it was his number, but why is it blue? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason for it being blue was because Jackie Robinson\u2019s original team was the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers\u2019 uniform color is blue, so is his number. Number 42 was retired in 1997, due to him being the first African American Baseball Player in the MLB. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackie Robinson among others are inspiring people to do big things. So go out there and do something big!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystery of the Blue 42 By: Giani Rodrigues Ever pass by Fenway, and wonder: Why is the number 42 blue? Well, you gotta know some basic baseball before I can tell you. Number One: Each number represents a player\u2019s number. And number 42 was Jackie Robinson\u2019s number. Number Two: The first african american to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waylandmiddleschool.org\/orange_black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}