{"id":52062,"date":"2015-10-13T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nbc_chicago_cubs_could_make_history_with_tuesday_win_over_cardinals\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:45:43","slug":"nbc_chicago_cubs_could_make_history_with_tuesday_win_over_cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52062","title":{"rendered":"(NBC Chicago) Cubs Could Make History With Tuesday Win Over Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(In case any readers were unaware or forgot, your blog host is <a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/print_w_comments\/6690\">a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan<\/a>&#8211;KSH).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs have proven that they are willing and able to make history, but If they beat the Cardinals on Tuesday at Wrigley Field, they\u2019ll accomplish something even more impressive than winning a playoff series over their hated rivals.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll also clinch a playoff series on their home field for the first time in at least 112 years.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the Cubs have only won three postseason series (excluding the NL Wild Card Game vs. the Pirates last week) since the World Series was first contested in 1903, but it\u2019s still shocking to realize that the team has never clinched a series on their home field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/Cubs-Could-Make-History-With-Tuesday-Win-Over-Cardinals-332286982.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In case any readers were unaware or forgot, your blog host is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan&#8211;KSH). The Chicago Cubs have proven that they are willing and able to make history, but If they beat the Cardinals on Tuesday at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52062\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,133,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}