{"id":4098,"date":"2010-06-26T22:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T03:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2010-06-26T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T03:11:36","slug":"mcquades-hell-and-high-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/mcquades-hell-and-high-water\/","title":{"rendered":"McQuade&#8217;s: Hell and High Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4099\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/26\/mcquades-hell-and-high-water\/mcquades\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4099\" title=\"McQuades\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/mcquades.jpg?w=442\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This weekend Bismarck is hosting an over-abundance of softball players for the 35th Annual Sam McQuade Sr. Charity Softball Tournament.<\/strong> It&#8217;s likely that sunscreen sales are down this year but umbrellas have to be up. As the father of two baseballers and an avid camper I can certainly sympathize with the players who had rain-outs due to this &#8216;lovely&#8217; North Dakota June we&#8217;ve been having (and those who are pitching tent in this humid and turbulent weather). I doubt the flash-flood producing thunderstorms have dampened the spirits of any McQuade veterans. This event has essentially made Bismarck the &#8216;Sturgis of Softball&#8217; for all the players and fans. To those die-hards I say &#8216;good luck&#8217; on the rest of the tournament&#8230; and surviving the weekend weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Bismarck is hosting an over-abundance of softball players for the 35th Annual Sam McQuade Sr. Charity Softball Tournament. It&#8217;s likely that sunscreen sales are down this year but umbrellas have to be up. As the father of two baseballers and an avid camper I can certainly sympathize with the players who had rain-outs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-146","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}