{"id":199126,"date":"2020-05-13T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=199126"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:33:23","slug":"st-paul-saints-to-hold-virtual-nopening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=199126","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul Saints to hold Virtual &#8220;Nopening Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-199256\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saints-baseball.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(AP)\u00a0 The St. Paul Saints will hold a virtual home opener next week, with the independent minor league baseball club unable to start their defense of the American Association championship due to the virus-related restrictions in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints have dubbed the event \u201cNopening Day,\u201d which will begin on Tuesday night at CHS Field with curbside pickup of free T-shirts for fans and end with a fireworks display at the empty 7,000-seat ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints will then re-broadcast on their social media platforms the 2015 home opener that marked the first game at CHS Field in the Lowertown area of Minnesota\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s usual off-the-wall in-game promotions will be staged from the homes of various staff members. Then on a serious note, video clips honoring front-line workers at Twin Cities hospitals will be aired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 The St. Paul Saints will hold a virtual home opener next week, with the independent minor league baseball club unable to start their defense of the American Association championship due to the virus-related restrictions in place. The Saints have dubbed the event \u201cNopening Day,\u201d which will begin on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199257,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126\/revisions\/199257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}