{"id":475,"date":"2018-01-24T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2018-01-24T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T01:43:23","slug":"lost-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/lost-battalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Battalion!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LBH circa 1975<\/p><\/div>\n

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LBH 2018!<\/p><\/div>\n

Wow… I don\u2019t know what it is, but sometimes I amaze myself! I feel that every ball player that ever played\u00a0anywhere<\/em> in Queens knows about this place… Lost Batallion! I literally turned back the hands of time and played ball there today. If you told me back then that in 43 years I\u2019d be at the Batallion playing ball, I would\u2019ve laughed. If you would\u2019ve told me that I would also be diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer (I will always\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>capitalize those words to give them that much importance in my life!) I would\u2019ve called you a liar! But… here I am! I will\u00a0not<\/em> in any way, shape, form or fashion\u00a0EVER<\/em> give in to this disease!! As far as I\u2019m concerned, God has\u00a0already\u00a0<\/em>healed me of this so-called\u00a0incurable\u00a0<\/em>disease!! For me it was just such a great day! All glory goes to God… I can\u2019t take credit for this… this\u00a0miracle\u00a0<\/em>life I now live! I will continue to live life fully and without cause to fear! Peace and blessings! P. S. – I hit 6 threes in a row!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow… I don\u2019t know what it is, but sometimes I amaze myself! I feel that every ball player that ever played\u00a0anywhere in Queens knows about this place… Lost Batallion! I literally turned back the hands of time and played ball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-life-with-cancer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zBYf-7F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/fractured-glass\/","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":0},"title":"fractured glass","author":"Michael","date":"June 20, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"here but i\u2019m notto replace what I gotmy eidetic nightmarestraduced my soul depleted and dejectedbreaking that prismwhich holds my intensecache of optimism they repeat every nightno solace, no reliefanother phase of the battletrying to break my belief lost in the echoesof choices and yearssurrounded by shadowsand unfinished fears looking behind\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Living life with cancer!"","block_context":{"text":"Living life with cancer!","link":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/category\/living-life-with-cancer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingdeadman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/BF8BEE72-99D9-4991-99DB-1B0FA3AFB220-scaled.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingdeadman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}