{"id":44817,"date":"2022-08-31T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44817"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:49:28","slug":"darryl-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44817","title":{"rendered":"Darryl Strawberry\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1268-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_1268-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=83614\">LGA<\/a> (LaGuardia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=94288\">airport<\/a>), New York<\/p>\n<p>A big man walked over, someone said to him, &#8220;Hi Darryl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replied, &#8220;How you doing.&#8221; Then sat down quietly by himself.<\/p>\n<p>Me, his fan, couldn&#8217;t help but went over, asking for a selfie. He obliged.<br \/>\n&#8220;May I take a photo of you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before I left, I said, &#8220;You&#8217;re the first baseball player I&#8217;ve known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciated it. I appreciated it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGA (LaGuardia airport), New York A big man walked over, someone said to him, &#8220;Hi Darryl.&#8221; He replied, &#8220;How you doing.&#8221; Then sat down quietly by himself. Me, his fan, couldn&#8217;t help but went over, asking for a selfie. He obliged. &#8220;May I take a photo of you?&#8221; &#8220;Sure.&#8221; Before I left, I said, &#8220;You&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}