{"id":1961,"date":"2019-04-27T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:59:53","slug":"opening-day-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2019\/04\/27\/opening-day-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wayne Messmer &#8217;72 sang the national anthem for the Chicago Cubs&#8217; opening day at Wrigley Field. Although he has sung the anthem for thirty-five opening days at Wrigley and hundreds of times at other events, this year\u2019s April 9 season opener was a milestone. It marked twenty-five years since a gunshot to Wayne&#8217;s throat left him wounded and worried he would never sing again.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/news\/20190408\/constable-25-years-after-shooting-messmer-sings-in-key-of-life\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is the link to the article about Wayne and a video of his national anthem performance.\u00a0Wayne lives in Glenview, Illinois.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Messmer &#8217;72 sang the national anthem for the Chicago Cubs&#8217; opening day at Wrigley Field. Although he has sung the anthem for thirty-five opening days at Wrigley and hundreds of times at other events, this year\u2019s April 9 season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2019\/04\/27\/opening-day-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}