{"id":57405,"date":"2026-05-03T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/03\/opinion-banana-ball-isnt-real-baseball-so-what-the-battalion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:27:25","slug":"opinion-banana-ball-isnt-real-baseball-so-what-the-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/03\/opinion-banana-ball-isnt-real-baseball-so-what-the-battalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Banana Ball isn\u2019t \u2018real baseball\u2019\u2026 so what? &#8211; The Battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE8tcFBaWm9BWkg1UWZEdEZOeFJXZXgyQUhZSV83WEpOOXVLRjFZdGdMZ0E5a0p2UFlKcTVjdXFUOGVHRGtSemMzYkZvM3ZOby1GNlFxTW9tQ1NBNzRVVzZVSEhuaWQ0cG5YNHRuMFc4UkNNbWhiWHNSQ1ViNFZKN3M?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Banana Ball isn\u2019t \u2018real baseball\u2019\u2026 so what?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Battalion<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Banana Ball isn\u2019t \u2018real baseball\u2019\u2026 so what?&nbsp;&nbsp;The Battalion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}