{"id":7969,"date":"2008-08-18T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ryan_the_soothsayer_sees_great_things_for_the_cubs\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T02:58:20","slug":"ryan_the_soothsayer_sees_great_things_for_the_cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7969","title":{"rendered":"Ryan the Soothsayer Sees Great Things for the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Dempster cradled the card deck as deftly and lovingly as he does baseballs. He took the ace of spades from the top, shuffled it into seeming oblivion and removed a two of clubs off the top as proof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I can make it come back,\u201d\u009d Dempster said coyly. He tapped the deck and flipped over the top card.<\/p>\n<p>Bingo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee?\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s your ace.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A fine amateur magician, Dempster\u2019s best trick this season has been turning himself into an ace \u201d\u201d of the Chicago Cubs. His next stunt? Trying to make 100 years disappear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/17\/sports\/baseball\/17dempster.html?_r=1&#038;8dpc&#038;oref=slogin\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Dempster cradled the card deck as deftly and lovingly as he does baseballs. He took the ace of spades from the top, shuffled it into seeming oblivion and removed a two of clubs off the top as proof. \u201cBut<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7969\">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":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","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=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}