{"id":21093,"date":"2013-05-10T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:00:08","slug":"the-flawed-pnc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2013\/05\/the-flawed-pnc-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The flawed PNC Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PITTSBURGH &mdash;<\/strong> I am not sure I can overstate what a wonderful combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2013\/05\/pittsburghs-pnc-park-is-a-magnificent-place-to-attend-a-baseball-game.html\">architecture, location, size and that is PNC Park<\/a>, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. In fact, I only detected one flaw<sup>*<\/sup> with the whole ballpark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wfyurasko\/8711739471\/\" title=\"No cupholders by wfyurasko, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8280\/8711739471_9a7890d9a8.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"No cupholders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No cupholders.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>A unscientific sample of Pirates fans agreed with <em>The Onion<\/em> that there was another flaw &#8211; the home team: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/pnc-park-threatens-to-leave-pittsburgh-unless-bett,2003\/\">PNC Park Threatens To Leave Pittsburgh Unless Better Team Is Built<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; I am not sure I can overstate what a wonderful combination of architecture, location, size and that is PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. In fact, I only detected one flaw* with the whole ballpark. No cupholders. *A unscientific sample of Pirates fans agreed with The Onion that there was another flaw [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,70,98],"tags":[1331,1477,1479,1482,1694,1921],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datelines","category-pennsylvania","category-travel","tag-pa-2","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pnc-park","tag-stadiums-and-arenas","tag-western-pennsylvania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The flawed PNC Park - William F. 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