{"id":403,"date":"2008-06-27T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/time-warp-4-620-rock-cats-at-defenders\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T02:13:18","slug":"time-warp-4-620-rock-cats-at-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/time-warp-4-620-rock-cats-at-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Warp 4 &#8211; 6\/20 &#8211; Rock Cats at Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20080623\/thumb_20080620-_MG_1422.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/>To quote John Cleese in <em>Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus<\/em>, and now for something completely different.  A friend of mine won skybox tickets to a New England Defenders game at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, where they were playing cross-state rivals the New Britain Rock Cats.  So of course I took him up on the offer on the tickets, and the 40D came along for the ride.  Here&#8217;s a few shots from the evening.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When we got to the skybox, I was a little less than impressed with the view &#8211; photographically speaking.  There were wires criss-crossing everywhere, and the net behind home plate was right in the way.  So after I took in the free catered dinner, I headed down to the concourse above the seats along the field for a better view of the field.  I spent most of the night down there, snapping shots throughout the game.   Here&#8217;s a few, including a handheld shot of the closing fireworks.\u00a0 And as you can tell by a couple, some rain crept in in the middle of the game, but not enough to postpone it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[cpg_album:420]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote John Cleese in Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus, and now for something completely different. A friend of mine won skybox tickets to a New England Defenders game at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, where they were playing cross-state rivals the New Britain Rock Cats. So of course I took him up on the offer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}