{"id":8297,"date":"2022-07-02T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2022-07-02T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:51:27","slug":"the-hickory-crawdads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=8297","title":{"rendered":"The Hickory Crawdads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday Mallory, Mason, &amp; I headed to Hickory &#8211; about an hour up the road &#8211; to see the Crawdads, their minor league team, in action.  Such a fun day.  We were excited to see that App State loves Hickory, since that&#8217;s where most of the King cousins went to college.  Then on the way home we saw the site where they are opening a new App State, Hickory Branch campus.  Now it makes perfect sense why App State loves them so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4011-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our real draw to watching the Hickory Crawdads play was that Luisangel Acuna, Ronald&#8217;s younger brother, plays there.  Ronald was on the DL when we were in Atlanta last weekend, so we were so excited to be able to see Luisangel in action.  Here he is at the plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-690x388.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_4013-980x550.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday Mallory, Mason, &amp; I headed to Hickory &#8211; about an hour up the road &#8211; to see the Crawdads, their minor league team, in action. Such a fun day. We were excited to see that App State loves Hickory, since that&#8217;s where most of the King cousins went to college. Then on the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}