{"id":12154,"date":"2020-05-24T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2020-05-22T23:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T04:29:06","slug":"speaking-of-plagues-spreading-across-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/speaking-of-plagues-spreading-across-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of plagues spreading across the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/columnist\/bob-nightengale\/2020\/05\/22\/mlb-designated-hitter-national-league-2020-traditionalists-must-adapt\/5235749002\/\">MLB traditionalists won&#8217;t like it, but the universal DH is coming<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>The\u00a0designated hitter\u00a0rule is coming to the National League for the first time this year. It will vanish again in 2021 in the NL, with the division and league schedules reverting back to their traditional ways, but beginning in 2022, under a new\u00a0collective bargaining agreement, the universal\u00a0DH\u00a0will be here to stay.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB traditionalists won&#8217;t like it, but the universal DH is coming The\u00a0designated hitter\u00a0rule is coming to the National League for the first time this year. It will vanish again in 2021 in the NL, with the division and league schedules &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/speaking-of-plagues-spreading-across-the-land\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12155,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}