{"id":1611,"date":"2008-07-31T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/completion-of-suspended-games\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:06:00","slug":"completion-of-suspended-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/completion-of-suspended-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Completion of Suspended Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I did not attend a sporting event last night, the minor league game from Tuesday night ended with the Peoria Chiefs defeating the Kane County Cougars 9-8 in 12 innings.  The final 3.5 innings were played in Peoria in front of a crowd of 4,232.  Although it was the first suspended baseball game I have attended, it was not the first suspended sporting event.  <\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Soccer\/International\/Spain\/12-12-2004_RealSociedad_RealMadrid.htm\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2004<\/a>, the Ultimate Sports Wife and I were at Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium watching Real Madrid host Real Sociedad.  With 3 minutes left in the match, the referees waived for all the players to leave the pitch.  Since Nicole and I were taking pictures in the aisle we had a head start as everyone else started to evacuate the section (the picture shows how high we were sitting).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/300px-Santiagobernabeupanoramav3-768619.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/uploaded_images\/300px-Santiagobernabeupanoramav3-768616.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>The stadium was evacuated in about 10 minutes as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ETA\" target=\"_blank\">ETA<\/a> (a violent separatist organization in Spain) had phoned in a bomb threat on the stadium.  Nicole and I walked 5 miles back to our hotel as we did not want to take the subway because of an attack that might occur there.  The match resumed on January 5, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I did not attend a sporting event last night, the minor league game from Tuesday night ended with the Peoria Chiefs defeating the Kane County Cougars 9-8 in 12 innings.  The final 3.5 innings were played in Peoria in front of a crowd of 4,232.  Although it was the first suspended baseball game I have attended, it was not the first suspended sporting event.<br \/>\nOn December 12, 2004, the Ultimate Sports Wife and I were at Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium watching Real Madrid host Real Sociedad. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}