{"id":86,"date":"2010-04-13T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marklydecker.wordpress.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2011-08-14T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T02:01:10","slug":"the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"The Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a NY Yankees fan.\u00a0 Right now you are thinking one of two things.\u00a0 I hate this guy or &#8216;boy do I like him&#8217;!\u00a0\u00a0 For that reason, whenever I travel to a city, other than NYC, I wear a Cubbie baseball hat.\u00a0 No one hates the Cubs&#8230;they just feel sympathy for them.<\/p>\n<p>While wearing my Cubs hat at Purdue University last Thursday, I was reminded of just how important it is to be in tune with the people you are around.\u00a0 In my walk to the student union, I &#8216;bumped&#8217; into a student from Atlanta.\u00a0 He was taken back that another Atlantan would wear a Chicago hat but appreciated that I would do that for others.\u00a0 From there we spoke of life and spiritual things.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to connect with people in a way that they can appreciate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a NY Yankees fan.\u00a0 Right now you are thinking one of two things.\u00a0 I hate this guy or &#8216;boy do I like him&#8217;!\u00a0\u00a0 For that reason, whenever I travel to a city, other than NYC, I wear a Cubbie baseball hat.\u00a0 No one hates the Cubs&#8230;they just feel sympathy for them. While wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}