{"id":11467,"date":"2011-07-18T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2011-07-18T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T21:36:51","slug":"rain-hail-and-shine-in-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11467","title":{"rendered":"Rain, hail, and shine in Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was tropical rain, vicious hail,\u00c2\u00a0bellowing thunder, and baking sunshine. All in a 15-minute spell at Waltham Abbey, Essex, on the Sunday just gone.\u00c2\u00a0The dugouts offered shelter to players, coaches, and this relieved scorer. The only other dry spot in sprinting distance was underneath the makeshift shelter erected by long-time British baseball follower Dennis Newman, which comprised an old fishing umbrella, some rope, and enough gaffer tape to mute a choir.<\/p>\n<p>Below are scenes from behind third base.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11466\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11466 \" title=\"Rain in Essex\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Rain-in-Essex.jpg\" alt=\"Rain in Essex\" width=\"503\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/Rain-in-Essex.jpg 503w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/Rain-in-Essex-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Various methods were used in an attempt to make the field playable following several heavy downpours after game 1, but more rain came and no further play was possible.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was tropical rain, vicious hail,\u00c2\u00a0bellowing thunder, and baking sunshine. All in a 15-minute spell at Waltham Abbey, Essex, on the Sunday just gone.\u00c2\u00a0The dugouts offered shelter to players, coaches, and this relieved scorer. The only other dry spot in sprinting distance was underneath the makeshift shelter erected by long-time British baseball follower Dennis Newman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}