{"id":20,"date":"2004-07-07T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T00:56:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:40","slug":"espn-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/07\/espn-babies","title":{"rendered":"Creating Sports Fans, One Baby at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/images\/inline\/espnmccall.jpg\" width=\"81\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinlineborder\" \/>Little ESPN Malachi McCall turns three years old next month. The smiling boy from Pampa, Texas, pictured on the right, will be getting a visit from us as part of a two-hour ESPN25 television special in which he and two other youngsters named after the network will be featured.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a quote from reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillonet.com\/stories\/062604\/new_espnamed.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Yount<\/a> of the Amarillo Globe:<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullbox\">&#8220;His middle name is a biblical messenger of God, so his parents sometimes call him &#8216;the sports messenger&#8217;.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>This kid should have no trouble making the football team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little ESPN Malachi McCall turns three years old next month. The smiling boy from Pampa, Texas, pictured on the right, will be getting a visit from us as part of a two-hour ESPN25 television special in which he and two other youngsters named after the network will be featured. Here is a quote from reporter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}