{"id":2116,"date":"2009-04-04T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2009-04-04T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:11:07","slug":"just-how-close-are-johnson-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2009\/04\/04\/just-how-close-are-johnson-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Close Are Johnson &amp; Norris?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wade says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/6358306.html\">Chris Johnson &amp; Bud Norris are very close to joining the big club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJohnson is the closest-to-the-big-leagues position player prospect we have,\u201d general manager Ed Wade said. \u201cWe like (Edwin) Maysonet and (Tommy) Manzella, (Brian) Bogusevic and a couple of other guys. But really, the guy that has the greatest chance of having an impact on our club is Johnson.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Norris:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Text-TextBody HoustonText\">\u201cBud did a real nice job,\u201d Wade said. \u201cI told him it wasn\u2019t easy for us (to send him to Round Rock).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text-TextBody HoustonText\">\u201cHe put his best foot forward here in camp and did exactly what we asked him to do. In other circumstances, he\u2019d be breaking camp with the big club.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wade says Chris Johnson &amp; Bud Norris are very close to joining the big club. On Johnson: \u201cJohnson is the closest-to-the-big-leagues position player prospect we have,\u201d general manager Ed Wade said. \u201cWe like (Edwin) Maysonet and (Tommy) Manzella, (Brian) Bogusevic and a couple of other guys. But really, the guy that has the greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[213,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}