{"id":4775,"date":"2009-02-07T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/storm-watch-2009-moderate-rain-wreaks-havoc-on-sports-schedule\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:10:00","slug":"storm-watch-2009-moderate-rain-wreaks-havoc-on-sports-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/storm-watch-2009-moderate-rain-wreaks-havoc-on-sports-schedule","title":{"rendered":"STORM WATCH 2009: Moderate Rain Wreaks Havoc On Sports Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo236884.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>   If you subscribe to as many Long Beach sports email lists as we do, you&#8217;ve probably been getting notice of a good chunk of cancellations. &nbsp;First, last week, the Long Beach State women&#8217;s tennis team had to wait to play their season opener against USC; now, the unveiling of the team&#8217;s brand new on-campus facilities (originally scheduled for Friday) are postponed until today at 3pm&#8211;although that&#8217;s pretty likely to be postponed as well, judging from the forecasts.     <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>LBCC baseball and softball have had a few games each postponed, and if forecasters are right about the rain patterns for this Spring, we could see a lot of high school postponements. &nbsp;The most tragic postponement yet, of course, is the delay of the Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival from today until 2\/21&#8211;both because we love chocolate, and because I was looking forward to being a judge today. &nbsp;Ah well!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We here at LBPostSports have just one question for you, weather gods&#8211;where was all this interesting precipitation when it was football season?<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;re overstating&#8211;but still, the cancellations and postponements are beginning to pile up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}