{"id":183,"date":"2009-05-08T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=183"},"modified":"2011-07-11T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:28:22","slug":"my-opening-dayentry-for-october-8-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"My opening day&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Entry for October 8, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/giantsopeningday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/giantsopeningday.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"giantsopeningday\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-184\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is one of the last things left of Dads. These damn tickets. In 1972 I started going to Giant games at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty-five years later&#8230;.I am still sitting in the same seats (well, 30 years at Giants stadium, 3 at Yale bowl and one at Yankee stadium) Approximatly 330 home games later I sit here with my 15 year old son. It is alot of heritage, history and memories. Some of the people that have gone to games with me, Mr Moran, Ed Deloreto, Frank and John Karst. beverly. barbara gary grant brenda, Gene Kaufman, John Morgan, Susan, Dan Braza, Erin, Mr Blackford, Chris Espeland, Marielle, Mom, Don Bok, Erin, Glenn Jr, Jo Ann, Buc Bahlman, and Roy Henderson to name a few.<br \/>\nI HAVE BEEN SITTING next to the alot of the same people for 30 years. They remember when I had a poney tail and beard and drank and flipped out over missed first downs.<br \/>\nOn this particular beautiful sunny day they played the &#8220;other&#8221; NY team and won. Josh and I got to the parking lot at 9am and finally left around 9:30 pm. We had the grill going all day: pork roll, hotdogs, clams with garlic and drawn butter, hot wings, shrimp, steak and potatoe salad (made the way mom made it) As the sun went down and we began to launch fireworks into the orange sky&#8230;.I realized how many hours of my life I have spent in this damn parking lot&#8230;.between the Giants and the Grateful Dead&#8230;I have met so many people&#8230;and I am passing this heritage onward&#8230;in the glow of our little fire&#8230;..says Josh&#8230;.&#8221;this is cool dad.&#8221;&#8230;..yeah this is cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the last things left of Dads. These damn tickets. In 1972 I started going to Giant games at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty-five years later&#8230;.I am still sitting in the same seats (well, 30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=183\">Continue reading <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":[43,92,1],"tags":[14,60],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-new-jersey","category-uncategorized","tag-george","tag-ny-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}