{"id":1511,"date":"2010-11-20T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2010-11-20T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T04:44:18","slug":"my-trek-to-tek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/20\/my-trek-to-tek\/","title":{"rendered":"My Trek to Tek"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Saturday, November 20, 2010<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier this week I heard about an event at Makeovers Salon and Spa in Easton, Mass.\u00a0 People who purchased gift certificates on Saturday evening would have the chance to meet and get an autograph from Jason Varitek, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Jimmy Fund.\u00a0 Easton&#8217;s a bit of a drive for me, but the way I figure it, I was planning on getting a haircut soon anyway, and since I recently moved I was going to have to look for a new place.\u00a0 Plus, it&#8217;s far enough into the off-season that I&#8217;m starting to go into withdrawal, so any chance to see a member of the Red Sox (even one who&#8217;s technically a free agent) would help me get my fix.<\/p>\n<p>So I made my way to the salon and bought my gift certificate.\u00a0 We were offered wine, cheese, and hors d&#8217;oeuvres while we waited in line, and then we finally got to meet the two-time World Champion.\u00a0 I brought along a picture of me with the 2004 World Series trophy which I took to Spring Training for several years to get autographs of the members of the &#8217;04 team.\u00a0 It was cool to add Tek&#8217;s to the trophy picture, and I got to have my photo taken with him too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1512\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1512\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1512\" title=\"Me and Jason Varitek\" src=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tekandme1.jpg\" alt=\"I got to meet the Red Sox' Captain this weekend.\" width=\"350\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tekandme1.jpg 350w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tekandme1-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tekandme1-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I got to meet the Red Sox&#39; Captain this weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 20, 2010 Earlier this week I heard about an event at Makeovers Salon and Spa in Easton, Mass.\u00a0 People who purchased gift certificates on Saturday evening would have the chance to meet and get an autograph from Jason Varitek, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Jimmy Fund.\u00a0 Easton&#8217;s a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}