{"id":1240,"date":"2013-11-04T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:21:19","slug":"red-sox-victory-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/red-sox-victory-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Victory Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston celebrated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2013\/10\/31\/red-sox-win-world-series-fenway-for-first-time-since\/SgOQmFkl6fFQASdBSUGMlI\/story.html\">Red Sox victory<\/a> in the World Series by throwing a parade on Saturday.  I joined the crowds at one corner of the Boston Common, with bright fall color in the background.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1242\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox1.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd along the parade route\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowd along the parade route<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/news\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/bullpen-cops-pose-already-thing-horganing\/\">A photo<\/a> of Boston police offier Steve Horgan throwing his hands in the air while a Detroit player flipped over, his legs in the air, is one of the iconic images of this World Series.  Horgan was on the first duck boat. At the urging of the crowd, he threw his hands up.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1243\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox2.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Hogan raises his arms in celebration\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Hogan raises his arms in celebration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I heard that David Ortiz, MVP of this World Series, rapped his way down Boylston.  He took a breather as he passed us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1244\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox3.jpg\" alt=\"David Ortiz (in red hoodie) in victory parade\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Ortiz (in red hoodie) passes by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Red, white, and blue confetti rained down on us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox4.jpg\" alt=\"Blue, red, and white confetti against white and blue sky\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox4.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/redsox4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later that day, we went for a picnic along the banks of a much quieter Jamaica Pond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1241\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pond.jpg\" alt=\"Jamaica Pond on a fall day\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pond.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pond-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamaica Pond on a fall day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston celebrated the Red Sox victory in the World Series by throwing a parade on Saturday. I joined the crowds at one corner of the Boston Common, with bright fall color in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[190,211,72,63,467,468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}