{"id":41324,"date":"2019-10-25T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41324"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:22:03","slug":"the-surprising-experience-of-a-tokyo-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41324","title":{"rendered":"The surprising experience of a Tokyo baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/22\/sport\/world-series-preview-nationals-astros-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> is one of sport&#8217;s hot tickets, but match day at a baseball game in Japan outdoes anything the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/25\/us\/rob-drake-mlb-umpire-impeachment-tweet-apology-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> has to offer. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">We&#8217;re in a sea of chanting fans, all calling the name of 27-year-old Tetsuo Yamada as he steps up to the plate. Every player has their own chant that&#8217;s shouted during every single inning. The fans know them by heart, sing in unison and generate a cacophony of noise.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On one wet summer evening in Tokyo, we saw Yakult Swallows play local rivals, Yomiuri Giants, at their home ground. They&#8217;re based at the Meiji Jingu Stadium, which was built in 1926, making it the oldest stadium in the city. It&#8217;s open air, and despite the rain, the stadium was packed close to its full capacity of about 31,000.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The World Series is one of sport&#8217;s hot tickets, but match day at a baseball game in Japan outdoes anything the MLB has to offer. We&#8217;re in a sea of chanting fans, all calling the name of 27-year-old Tetsuo Yamada as he steps up to the plate. Every player has their own chant that&#8217;s shouted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}