{"id":13466,"date":"2012-05-08T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2012-05-08T22:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:11:17","slug":"braves-organist-on-the-bbc-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13466","title":{"rendered":"Braves organist on the BBC website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the MLB on 5 Live Sports Extra coverage, it normally takes something historic, controversial or quirky for baseball\u00c2\u00a0to get a mention on\u00c2\u00a0the BBC.co.uk website.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example comes from the quirky pile.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC News Magazine section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17985492\" target=\"_blank\">recently highlighted<\/a> the story of Matthew Kaminski, who plays the organ at Turner Field in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is primarily focused on this as an example of crowd-sourcing, in which Kaminski uses Twitter to gain suggestions for songs he should play during Braves games.<\/p>\n<p>Even without this social media aspect, it would probably surprise many Brits to learn that organ music\u00c2\u00a0can be heard at ballparks, so it could\u00c2\u00a0prove to be a fun eye-opener to one of the more traditional parts of the in-game festivities you can enjoy (or endure, depending on your viewpoint) at a ballgame.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0three-minute video may also surprise some baseball fans by showing them that there is often a real person behind the music, even if the endless renditions of &#8220;let&#8217;s go [insert team], let&#8217;s go&#8221; and the &#8220;diddly de da deee&#8221; tune might make you doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the MLB on 5 Live Sports Extra coverage, it normally takes something historic, controversial or quirky for baseball to get a mention on the BBC.co.uk website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[107,225,553],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-bbc","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13471,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}