{"id":130966,"date":"2026-08-06T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/and-finally-it-was-amateur-hour-for-the-cubs\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:05:28","modified_gmt":"2029-01-22T05:05:28","slug":"and-finally-it-was-amateur-hour-for-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/06\/and-finally-it-was-amateur-hour-for-the-cubs\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd Finally \u2013 It Was Amateur Hour For The Cubs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time has left a wreckage  of our memories. So, in good faith, we are trying  to archive some of our recollections before they are gone.<br \/>\n\t  In the summer of 1961, Jerome Loendorf coached the Jaycee-sponsored Wolf Point Little League. The boys remember Loendorf as a punctual, patient mentor who would work with them individually  after practice. Below are various results of one week in July of 1961 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131083,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130966\/revisions\/131083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130966"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130966"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}