{"id":3330,"date":"2011-05-08T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-172-birthday-card-give-back-and-1975-cincinnati-reds-program-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Day 172 &#8211; Birthday Card (Give Back) and 1975 Cincinnati Reds Program (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjTYSrlw8j_hbvbsUmnA6SpYsY1-mvLrKBchg4gkZ6i9PP7pcjzF_FzwjNVWQykkBVtwpUCCMtbLXJASXXQpaQGfRmOdeAtvFZDFCbSuI4JSV8qVY2SGwmwcdryIvuNnDnpNgDljW3KBPk\/s200\/Picture+197.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I embarassed my niece by returning this birthday card in front of a class of her peers.\u00a0 Fortunately, she&#8217;s got a good sense of humor AND she&#8217;s come a long way as an artist, so she was able to laugh about it &#8211; along with everyone else.\u00a0  But she wasn&#8217;t able to tell me if those things were supposed to be hearts or flowers. I don&#8217;t have a picture, but my second Give was a Cincinnati Reds &#8220;Scorecard&#8221; program from 1975!\u00a0 Pete Rose was on the cover!\u00a0  Apparently, my packratting started early.\u00a0 In &#8217;75, I would have been 7 years old!\u00a0 My brothers and I went to a few Reds games with Dad when we were kids.\u00a0 I always enjoyed the atmosphere more than the game itself.\u00a0 I remember one game where a drunk fan kept yelling random, slurred &#8220;insults&#8221; at Pete Rose like &#8220;Pete Rose is a hamburger!&#8221; I gave\u00a0the 1975 scorecard\u00a0to a co-worker who I know is a big Reds fan because I always see him commenting on the Reds on Facebook.  Then I looked it up on-line and found it could have been sold for 30 to 40 dollars.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t occur to me that anyone would pay for it.\u00a0  C&#8217;est la vie!\u00a0 (I believe that&#8217;s French for @#$%!!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I embarassed my niece by returning this birthday card in front of a class of her peers.\u00a0 Fortunately, she&#8217;s got a good sense of humor AND she&#8217;s come a long way as an artist, so she was able to laugh about it &#8211; along with everyone else.\u00a0 But she wasn&#8217;t able to tell me if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}