{"id":186134,"date":"2025-08-30T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186134\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:15:10","slug":"jonah-tongs-rapid-mets-rise-shattered-his-parents-wildest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186134\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Tong&#8217;s rapid Mets rise shattered his parents&#8217; wildest dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other side of the now-famous phone call between Jonah Tong and his mother, Karen, began with her assuming Jonah had to talk about school.<\/p>\n<p>The night prior, they had been on the phone going over his coursework for the semester at Northeastern, so when the phone rang again, this time at 11:15 p.m., she assumed it was about that. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d shut down her social media, so if the news of her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/sports\/jonah-tong-and-his-alter-ego-are-here-to-light-the-mets-world-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">son\u2019s call-up to the Mets<\/a> had leaked by then, it had escaped notice.<\/p>\n<p>Tong, as the world now knows, started bawling upon telling her the news that he would be making his Mets debut Friday night against the Marlins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other side of the now-famous phone call between Jonah Tong and his mother, Karen, began with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,98415,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jonah-tong","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115309660760598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}