{"id":4711,"date":"2016-03-09T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhtboston.wpengine.com\/event\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2018-02-27T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:45:13","slug":"picnic-in-fenway-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/picnic-in-fenway-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic in Fenway Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIELD OF DREAMS \u201cAwesome,\u201d said 80-year-old Sox fan Mel Saftler as he walked on the outfield grass at Fenway with his son, Chuck, a BU grad who\u2019s senior VP of programming for the FX Networks. \u201cAwesomely unbelievable.\u201d He was talking about the Red Sox Wives Picnic in the Park, which let diehards like him not only stroll around the field, but also meet and mingle with their heroes. When Nomar Garciaparra signed Saftler\u2019s Louisville Slugger, the old man could hardly believe his eyes. (In all, the event raised close to $200,000 for Jane Doe Inc., a nonprofit that combats domestic violence.) One wealthy fan ponied up $5,000 for a private pitching lesson from Curt Schilling, another bid $1,900 for guitar tutoring from pitcher Bronson Arroyo, and a third coughed up $20,000 for a hand-crafted quilt signed by the 2004 BoSox team. Musical entertainment was provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/dance-bands\/flipside\/\">Flipside<\/a>, the Boston band that serenaded Suzy Wetlaufer and Jack Welch at their wedding as well as \u201cSurvivor\u201d Elisabeth Filarski and her signal-caller, Tim Hasselbeck, on their big day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIELD OF DREAMS \u201cAwesome,\u201d said 80-year-old Sox fan Mel Saftler as he walked on the outfield grass at Fenway with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bandevents","category-featured","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrayhilltalent.com\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}