{"id":4678,"date":"2014-07-10T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:24:25","slug":"time-is-of-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/time-is-of-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is of the Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/sed-Baseball-thumb1059395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4679 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/sed-Baseball-thumb1059395.jpg\" alt=\"baseball with seems missing\" width=\"250\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Professor Emerita of English <strong>Gail Griffin<\/strong> has been particularly prolific recently, publishing a number of essays in a variety of journals. A short list and description of those essays will appear in the Fall issue of <em>LuxEsto<\/em>, but we couldn\u2019t wait that long to share one that will let you know that Gail is now a published baseball writer! Her essay &#8220;Night, Briggs Stadium, 1960&#8221; describes her 10th birthday present&#8211;a Tiger\u2019s night game! It appears in the new book A DETROIT ANTHOLOGY, a collection of some 60 stories about what it was (and is) like to live in the city of Detroit. Gail gave an <a href=\"http:\/\/wmuk.org\/term\/gail-griffin\"><strong>interview<\/strong><\/a> about the piece on WMUK radio station. Consider the following short excerpt a first-inning triple topped by a steal of home:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>A rectangle of night sky opens ahead. Brilliant banks of lights against the black. The low crowd hum, rising, like a sea sound. Then acres of green seats and then, below it all, the blazing diamond, emerald they should call it, nothing has ever been so green.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Left field, Maxwell. Right, Colavito, the outrageous Cleveland trade, who points his bat at pitchers like a gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Humidity haloes the lights. Men yelp HOTdogs, HOTdogs, PROgram. I am transfixed&#8230;<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So are we.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emerita of English Gail Griffin has been particularly prolific recently, publishing a number of essays in a variety of journals. 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Then acres of green seats and then, below it all, the blazing diamond, emerald they should call it, nothing has ever been so green.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Left field, Maxwell. Right, Colavito, the outrageous Cleveland trade, who points his bat at pitchers like a gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Humidity haloes the lights. Men yelp HOTdogs, HOTdogs, PROgram. I am transfixed&#8230;<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So are we.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}