{"id":54,"date":"2013-10-22T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=54"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:44","slug":"missing-jim-leyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/22\/missing-jim-leyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Jim Leyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday October 22<\/p>\n<p>To me and lots of other people, Jim Leyland has been a class act manager. \u00a0I looked forward to his post game analyses &#8212; understated and funny, down to earth, smart. \u00a0 I happened to be free during most of his retirement press conference yesterday. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a\u00a04 minute clip from \u00a0the press conference.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/det\/jim-leyland-steps-down-as-detroit-tigers-manager?ymd=20131021&amp;content_id=63201648&amp;vkey=news_det\">http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/det\/jim-leyland-steps-down-as-detroit-tigers-manager?ymd=20131021&amp;content_id=63201648&amp;vkey=news_det<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and a pretty good tribute by Tom Cage<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20131022\/SPORTS0104\/310220023\/Jim-me-Tigers-manager-one-kind-around?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE\">tribute.http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20131022\/SPORTS0104\/310220023\/Jim-me-Tigers-manager-one-kind-around?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s word: \u00a0Ernie Harwell&#8217;s classic recitation for many \u00a0opening days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor, lo, the winter is past,<\/p>\n<p>the rain is over and gone;<\/p>\n<p>the flowers appear on the earth;<\/p>\n<p>the time for singing of birds is come,<\/p>\n<p>and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Song of Solomon<\/p>\n<p>Read on Tigers Opening Day for decades by Ernie Harwell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday October 22 To me and lots of other people, Jim Leyland has been a class act manager. \u00a0I looked forward to his post game analyses &#8212; understated and funny, down to earth, smart. \u00a0 I happened to be free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/22\/missing-jim-leyland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}