{"id":1762217,"date":"2022-10-04T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1762217"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:52:58","slug":"beyond-the-grunt-umpires-mic-up-and-baseball-changes-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1762217","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the grunt: Umpires mic up, and baseball changes a bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/beyond-the-grunt-umpires-mic-up-and-baseball-changes-a-bit\/20506930\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2022\/10\/04\/20506931\/media_b252e1ed69ec4a7bbeeced61d0884b0f-DMID1-5wghsaisr-80x53.jpg\" alt=\"The_Umpires_Voice_Baseball_79489\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a century and a half of Major League Baseball &#8212; after generations of grunts and growls, of muffled shouts and dramatic arm gestures and a cultivated sense of remoteness &#8212; something quietly extraordinary happened to the national pastime this year: The umpires began talking to the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/beyond-the-grunt-umpires-mic-up-and-baseball-changes-a-bit\/20506930\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/beyond-the-grunt-umpires-mic-up-and-baseball-changes-a-bit\/20506930\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Beyond the grunt: Umpires mic up, and baseball changes a bit\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a century and a half of Major League Baseball &#8212; after generations of grunts and growls, of muffled shouts and dramatic arm gestures and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}