{"id":3102,"date":"2016-08-12T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2016-06-21T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T02:43:09","slug":"august-12-1976-birth-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/august-12-1976-birth-toronto-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"August 12, 1976: The Birth of the Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 40th birthday of my favorite current Canadian baseball team &#8212; the Toronto Blue Jays. The American League expansion franchise&#8217;s name was unveiled on August 12, 1976. &#8220;Blue Jays&#8221; was found on 154 of the more than 30,000 individual entries. Among the other suggestions were Turkey Ticklers, Black Flies, Exhibitionists and Fiddle-Faddles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Detroit_Free_Press_Fri__Aug_13__1976_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3103\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Detroit_Free_Press_Fri__Aug_13__1976_.jpg\" alt=\"August 12, 1976: The Birth of the Toronto Blue Jays\" width=\"800\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Detroit_Free_Press_Fri__Aug_13__1976_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Detroit_Free_Press_Fri__Aug_13__1976_-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Detroit_Free_Press_Fri__Aug_13__1976_-768x396.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 40th birthday of my favorite current Canadian baseball team &#8212; the Toronto Blue Jays. The American League expansion franchise&#8217;s name was unveiled on August 12, 1976. &#8220;Blue Jays&#8221; was found on 154 of the more than 30,000 individual entries. Among the other suggestions were Turkey Ticklers, Black Flies, Exhibitionists and Fiddle-Faddles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[59,384,46,383],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1970s","tag-384","tag-mlb","tag-toronto-blue-jays","wpcat-361-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}