{"id":7,"date":"2021-08-20T05:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2022-10-17T04:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:40:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Darrell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born and raised in Southern California, and couldn&#8217;t imagine living anywhere else.  &#8220;Since the womb&#8221; is how my mom describes my lengthy love affair with the Dodgers.  Many nights as a child, I would lay in bed with a transistor radio under my pillow,  listening to Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett and Ross Porter describe the action at the ballpark.  We were blessed growing up in the Los Angeles area: Chick Hearn with the Lakers, Bob Miller with the Kings, and Scully with the Dodgers &#8212; we had a trio of Hall of Fame broadcasters that taught us about the sports and masterfully painted a picture of what was happening before their eyes.  Ever since I was in grade school, I knew that this was what I wanted to do when I grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This purpose of this blog is to share an insight into what goes on in my head, and how life experiences have shaped me into who I am today.  That&#8217;s a constant work in progress!  You will realize right away that baseball is my passion, and I aim to weave in quotes and anecdotes from the great game into the topics that I will write about.  Let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born and raised in Southern California, and couldn&#8217;t imagine living anywhere else. &#8220;Since the womb&#8221; is how my mom describes my lengthy love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}