{"id":27813,"date":"2025-08-20T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=27813"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:21:47","slug":"first-post-wednesday-august-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2025\/08\/20\/first-post-wednesday-august-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Wednesday, August 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3yej8ImR8zo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ring the bell!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of this week, your phightin\u2019 Philalala Phillies were facing a potentially stern test, hosting the trade-deadline-boosted American League playoff-contending Seattle Mariners for a three-game series. The teams looked evenly matched on paper ahead of Monday night\u2019s opener, but by the time series ended this afternoon, the Mariners were the ones getting not only tested, but wholly bested, completely crested &amp; altogether molested. It was a rout in favor of the Philadelphians, with the aggregate scoreline coming in at 29-13. Scrub-on over to the 10:24 mark of today\u2019s video lede for the <em>coup de gr\u00e1ce<\/em> courtesy of your National League leader in home runs, Mistah Kyle Schwarber&#8230;SCHWARBER!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for the home-run mutuels here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"562\" data-attachment-id=\"27815\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2025\/08\/20\/first-post-wednesday-august-20-2025\/wed0820asd4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wed0820AsD4.jpg?fit=1530%2C1344&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1530,1344\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Phillies were facing a potentially stern test, hosting the trade-deadline-boosted American League playoff-contending Seattle Mariners for a three-game series. The teams looked evenly matched on paper ahead of Monday night\u2019s opener, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2025\/08\/20\/first-post-wednesday-august-20-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-7eB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27818,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813\/revisions\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}