{"id":2609,"date":"2011-01-17T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2011-01-17T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:05:39","slug":"former-rival-jason-kipnis-continues-to-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2609","title":{"rendered":"Former rival Jason Kipnis continues to produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kipnis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2610\" title=\"kipnis-1\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kipnis-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As  a senior on the Deerfield High School baseball team in 2004, I had the  opportunity to watch <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;id=kipnis001jas\" target=\"_blank\">Jason  Kipnis<\/a><\/strong> first-hand as my shortstop counterpart  for rival Glenbrook North High School in the northern suburbs of  Chicago.\u00a0 Amongst my teammates, he quickly earned  the reputation as one of the most impressive hitters in the conference,  and with good reason.\u00a0 Kipnis ultimately garnered  All-State honors \u2013 we were actually the two All-Conference shortstops  in the Central Suburban North \u2013 and went on to have a tremendous high  school career.<\/p>\n<p>Although  I graduated from high school a year before him, the strong impression  that Kipnis left fueled my interest to track his career.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s not everyday that a player who directly intertwined with your own career reaches the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prepbaseballreport.com\/Blogs\/TheGoldenSombrero\/tabid\/1135\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/1616\/Former-rival-Jason-Kipnis-continues-to-produce.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading &#8216;Former rival Jason Kipnis continues to produce&#8217; &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a senior on the Deerfield High School baseball team in 2004, I had the opportunity to watch Jason Kipnis first-hand as my shortstop counterpart for rival Glenbrook North High School in the northern suburbs of Chicago.\u00a0 Amongst my teammates, he quickly earned the reputation as one of the most impressive hitters in the conference, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1300,8,6,16,11,13,10,14],"tags":[1693,642,654,1694,1561,1691,1692,1562,391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}