{"id":12530,"date":"2019-04-05T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/?p=12530"},"modified":"2019-04-15T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:10:59","slug":"matt-mancuso-on-what-makes-baseball-games-worth-attending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/matt-mancuso-on-what-makes-baseball-games-worth-attending\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Baseball Games Worth Attending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being our national pastime, baseball has seen a significant decrease in interest over the past 10 years. In addition to that, attendance has gone down across both minor leagues and the major leagues. Today, I spoke with Matt Mancuso, a current freshman at TCNJ who is a big baseball fan, just like me. Mancuso detailed how his experience at a Trenton Thunder game allowed to him watch players development and had some high thrill moments, giving reasons to go to games. He also explained how certain ballparks around the country have many attractions that add to the experience of going to games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audio Story - Why Baseball Is Still Watchable by Mathias A-K\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F601548060&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=975&amp;maxwidth=650\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being our national pastime, baseball has seen a significant decrease in interest over the past 10 years. In addition to that, attendance has gone down across both minor leagues and the major leagues. Today, I spoke with Matt Mancuso, a current freshman at TCNJ who is a big baseball fan, just like me. Mancuso detailed how his experience at a Trenton Thunder game allowed to him watch players development and had some high thrill moments, giving reasons to go to games. He also explained how certain ballparks around the country have many attractions that add to the experience of going to games. &nbsp;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14394,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}