{"id":2043,"date":"2016-03-24T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:36:26","slug":"joe-garagiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Joe Garagiola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08cd5e47970d-150wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13500\" title=\"Joe garagiola\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was 90. Not the greatest catcher from his neighborhood (Yogi Berra lived across the street) but otherwise very talented. He didn&#8217;t retire until 3 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Garagiola,_Sr.\">Joe Garagiola, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIs son, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Garagiola,_Jr.\">Joe Jr<\/a>., was a year ahead of me at Stepinac HS, and played goalie on the soccer team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQKNfdR9Wgo\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was 90. Not the greatest catcher from his neighborhood (Yogi Berra lived across the street) but otherwise very talented. He didn&#8217;t retire until 3 years ago. Joe Garagiola, Sr. HIs son, Joe Jr., was a year ahead of me at Stepinac HS, and played goalie on the soccer team. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}