{"id":188909,"date":"2021-07-26T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188909"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T08:40:11","slug":"never-let-the-fear-of-striking-out-keep-you-from-playing-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/never-let-the-fear-of-striking-out-keep-you-from-playing-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNever let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Over the course of his career, Babe Ruth broke baseball&#8217;s most important slugging records including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs\u2014a mark that stood until 1974. Ruth was born on 6 Feb 1895 and was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two who survived infancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/babe-ruth.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/babe-ruth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/babe-ruth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/babe-ruth-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of his career, Babe Ruth broke baseball&#8217;s most important slugging records including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs\u2014a mark that stood until 1974. Ruth was born on 6 Feb 1895 and was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two who survived infancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":188911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2599,2255],"class_list":["post-188909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-babe-ruth","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}