{"id":4254,"date":"2015-07-21T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/los-angeles-angels-blow-dry-their-wet-field-with-a-helicopter\/4254\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:24:00","slug":"los-angeles-angels-blow-dry-their-wet-field-with-a-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/los-angeles-angels-blow-dry-their-wet-field-with-a-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels Blow Dry Their Wet Field With A Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>0:29<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/me\/2015\/07\/20150721_me_hr1_return_si.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There may be a drought in California, but the Los Angeles Angels had a home game rained out Sunday, their first in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>They needed to dry the field on Monday, so they called in a helicopter to hover overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The field was blow-dried, but Angels manager Mike Scioscia was unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p>He recalls a youth league game years ago when wet base paths were doused in gasoline and set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Presuambly the fire went out before the game began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/07\/21\/424887301\/los-angeles-angels-blow-dry-their-wet-field-with-a-helicopter?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Los Angeles Angels Blow Dry Their Wet Field With A Helicopter\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/07\/21\/424887301\/los-angeles-angels-blow-dry-their-wet-field-with-a-helicopter?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>0:29<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/me\/2015\/07\/20150721_me_hr1_return_si.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There may be a drought in California, but the Los Angeles Angels had a home game rained out Sunday, their first in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>They needed to dry the field on Monday, so they called in a helicopter to hover overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The field was blow-dried, but Angels manager Mike Scioscia was unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p>He recalls a youth league game years ago when wet base paths were doused in gasoline and set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Presuambly the fire went out before the game began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}