{"id":2005,"date":"2016-04-01T00:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2016-04-01T00:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T04:07:40","slug":"congress-renames-nationals-park-to-honor-antonin-scalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Congress Renames Nationals Park to Honor Antonin Scalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?attachment_id=2006\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2006\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SCALIA FIELD\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SCALIA-FIELD.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?attachment_id=2007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2007 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MITCH.png\" alt=\"MITCH\" width=\"163\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced today from the dugout steps of Nationals Park that the home of the Washington Nationals major league baseball team would be renamed Antonin Scalia Field in memory of the recently deceased Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?attachment_id=2008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2008 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MicheleBachmann-CornDog2-150x91.jpg\" alt=\"MicheleBachmann-CornDog2\" width=\"197\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The senior Senator from Kentucky credited former Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for the inspiration behind the name change. Bachmann said the idea came to her \u201cin a vision.\u201d No\u00a0comments from Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton or D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser were immediately forthcoming. The Nationals will host the Miami Marlins in the home opener at Antonin Scalia Field on Thursday, April 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced today from the dugout steps of Nationals Park that the home of the Washington Nationals major league baseball team would be renamed Antonin Scalia Field in memory of the recently deceased Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The senior Senator from Kentucky credited former Representative Michele Bachmann &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=2005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress Renames Nationals Park to Honor Antonin Scalia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}