{"id":1782,"date":"2013-03-27T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2013-03-27T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:50:29","slug":"jim-roper-68-and-spring-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2013\/03\/27\/jim-roper-68-and-spring-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Roper &#8217;68 and Spring Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1783\" style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1783\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-27 at 10.33.03 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.33.03-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.33.03-AM.png 564w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.33.03-AM-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Roper, Outlaws first baseman, makes the play at first<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jim Roper &#8217;68, lovely bride Liz, and the crew made the trip to a warmer climate for some spring ball.<\/p>\n<p>The Outlaws are a traveling team and Jim sees real potential to grow into an elite group. \u00a0They also took in a Rockies spring training game while in AZ. \u00a0At one point in the game, they showed a split scoreboard weather report &#8211; 74 and sunny in AZ and snowing and 22 degrees at Coors Field!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.43.14-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1784 \" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-27 at 10.43.14 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.43.14-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.43.14-AM.png 815w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.43.14-AM-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz and Jim Roper with the boys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Here&#8217;s Jim and family at Barringer Crater. \u00a0No, it was not formed by errant bombs from any F-111s. \u00a0Jim and I may have flown by there, though, a time or seven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Roper &#8217;68, lovely bride Liz, and the crew made the trip to a warmer climate for some spring ball. The Outlaws are a traveling team and Jim sees real potential to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-27-at-10.33.03-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}