{"id":29076,"date":"2012-08-05T22:19:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/southpaw.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:32:16","slug":"southpaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/southpaw.html","title":{"rendered":"Southpaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the discussion of teh origin of the word &quot;southpaw&quot; came up in my Twitter stream today &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwidewords.org%2Fimg%2Fleftygrove.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-sou3.htm'>World Wide Words: Southpaw<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe usual story about the origin of &#39;southpaw&#39;, referring to the alignment of early baseball parks, is just a good story.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1Y3VvNkgqfC' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the discussion of teh origin of the word &quot;southpaw&quot; came up in my Twitter stream today &#8230; Embedded Link World Wide Words: Southpaw The usual story about the origin of &#39;southpaw&#39;, referring to the alignment of early baseball parks, is just a good story. 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