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Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe at Home &#8211; The Post25 Years Ago, a Gift From Major League Baseball Helped Iran Hostages Reconnect With AmericaBeano Cook uttered one his most famous lines (in the title) after MLB commisioner Bowie Kuhn announced that all of the hostages held by Iran for 444 days would recieve lifetime passes to Major League Baseball [&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":[10],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beano-watch","tag-beano-cook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Haven&#039;t they suffered enough? - William F. 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