{"id":22224,"date":"2004-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/dodger-stadium-playing-field\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:08:12","slug":"dodger-stadium-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/dodger-stadium-playing-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodger Stadium Playing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20030126_dodgerstadium.jpg\" border=\"1\" title=\"Pic from 2002 Two Guys &#038; a Map Midlife Crisis Tour: \n\nI was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/la\/ballpark\/la_ballpark_history.jsp\">this bit about Dodger Stadium<\/a> on the Los Angeles Dodgers website and thought it was interesting:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left; width: 240px;\"><i>&#8220;The 100,000 square feet of bermuda grass is grown on pure sand, beneath which a vacuum chamber is laid over a water-tight plastic barrier that forcibly extracts water during heavy rains. New moisture gauges monitor the field&#8217;s water level in coordination with a microprocessor that controls drainage functions. A computer controller has the ability to reverse the scenario and subirrigate when the sand&#8217;s moisture reading drops below the optimal level.&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This would be a cool system for my backyard. Speaking of which, I was doing some yardwork yesterday when a snake slithered out of the rocks, then slithered back into the rocks. It scared the bejeezus out of me!<\/p>\n<p>[pic from <a href=\"http:\/\/dpasternak.home.mindspring.com\/TwoGuys2002.htm\">&#8220;2002 Two Guys &#038; a Map Midlife Crisis Tour&#8221;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5Ms","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}