{"id":9414,"date":"2020-06-11T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:31:32","slug":"on-base-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is on base percentage, and how does it factor into the strategy in Moneyball<\/em>? Is on base percentage really the most important statistic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Moneyball<\/em>, on base percentage is touted by Sabermetrics<\/a> enthusiasts as one of the best predictors of player performance. Sabermetrics argues that on base percentage offers the most opportunity to players to create runs, and is most likely to lead to wins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Undervalued vs. Overvalued Metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1995, as Billy Beane<\/a> is working his way up the ranks of the Oakland organization, the new owners of the A\u2019s demand that the team drastically reduce payroll<\/strong>. The team must now economize, making sure that every dollar spent on players contributes to on-field success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This occurs during an era of skyrocketing player salaries, driven by the rise of free agency, which profoundly changes the economics of professional baseball. Rich teams like the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox are able to spend unlimited sums in order to acquire the biggest stars on the free agent market. But relatively poor teams like the A\u2019s are forced to take a new approach to player acquisition, looking for players who are undervalued by the market and can be gotten on the cheap.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this time, many of baseball\u2019s most widely used statistics to evaluate baseball players are coming under fire. These critics (including the A\u2019s general manager as well as a baseball writer named Bill James<\/a>) note, for example, that team batting average is overrated because it overlooks the importance of walks to a team\u2019s total offensive output<\/strong>.  Likewise, James criticizes the RBI as a product of luck: a batter must have the good fortune to be at bat when other players are already <\/em>on base to be able to bring them home with a hit. It is a matter of luck to even have the opportunity <\/em>to score an RBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James contrasts this with statistical measures that had been overlooked by professional baseball. MLB On base percentage in baseball, he argues, has a better correlation with run production than batting average, because it accounts for all the ways a player can get on base and contribute offense: including walks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, players with high batting averages and low error counts are highly valued, while players with lots of walks and a high MLB on base percentage (but who aren\u2019t flashy sluggers with high batting averages) are deeply undervalued. Yet teams continue making poor (and expensive) personnel decisions based on flimsy information, despite the availability of better data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world of professional baseball ishostile to this statistics-based criticism<\/strong>, refusing to take seriously ideas from which they would clearly benefit. But Bill James does have one devoted reader, who soon puts his ideas into practice at baseball\u2019s highest level\u2014Billy Bean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Deficiencies of the Naked Eye<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of James\u2019s main insights is that the naked eye is a poor tool for measuring baseball performance<\/strong>. Statistically significant data, accumulated over long periods of time, offers a much better guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelling around the country looking for baseball talent, a professional scout might only see small snippets of any given player\u2019s overall performance. <\/em>In isolation, these tiny sample sizes can lead to wild inaccuracies in judgement about a player\u2019s worth. On any given night<\/em>, after all, a player with a .275 on base percentage can play better than his teammate with a .350 on base percentage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, James notes, these chance observations of players are informing baseball decisions at the highest levels. <\/strong>Teams are making ludicrous personnel decisions and deciding who does and doesn\u2019t get to be a professional baseball player based on the very flimsiest information. This outrages James, especially in an era of skyrocketing baseball salaries. If players are going to be paid exorbitant sums, it makes sense to figure out exactly what they\u2019re worth<\/strong>. A grotesque market failure, a gross misallocation of precious resources, is at the heart of professional baseball.
Moreover, James is exasperated by the fact that good data actually is <\/em>available. Rapid advances in computer technology during the 1970s and 1980s have lowered the cost of acquiring and analyzing baseball statistics, certainly for wealthy MLB teams. But the teams choose to squander this opportunity, relying on bad conventional wisdom and outmoded heuristics to decide who should and shouldn\u2019t become a professional baseball player.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small cadre of people who actually run <\/em>professional baseball teams is determined to exclude outside voices and opinions, even if that means losing games. They prefer to do things their <\/em>way than take advice from a bunch of pencil-pushers droning on about MLB on base percentage in baseball and runs created formulas. They are profoundly uninterested in using baseball statistics in an analytical way<\/strong>. In fact, in the early 1980s, the earliest participants in what later becomes the phenomenon of fantasy sports are more interested in getting their hands on good baseball data<\/a> than the teams themselves\u2014even though these fans stand to gain far less from such knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On base percentage in baseball was one of the key metrics used by Billy Beane and his team in Moneyball. On base percentage helped the Oakland A’s build their team, and eventually get to the playoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is on base percentage, and how does it factor into the strategy in Moneyball? Is on base percentage really the most important statistic? In Moneyball, on base percentage is touted by Sabermetrics enthusiasts as one of the best predictors of player performance. Sabermetrics argues that on base percentage offers the most opportunity to players to create runs, and is most likely to lead to wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,25],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-statistics","tag-moneyball","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\nOn Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Shortform Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carrie Cabral\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carrie Cabral\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Carrie Cabral\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56\"},\"headline\":\"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\"},\"wordCount\":884,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Moneyball\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Sports\",\"Statistics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\",\"name\":\"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball - Shortform Books\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg\",\"width\":2100,\"height\":1500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"description\":\"The World's Best Book Summaries\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":74,\"caption\":\"Shortform Books\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56\",\"name\":\"Carrie Cabral\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Carrie Cabral\"},\"description\":\"Carrie has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember, and has always been open to reading anything put in front of her. She wrote her first short story at the age of six, about a lost dog who meets animal friends on his journey home. Surprisingly, it was never picked up by any major publishers, but did spark her passion for books. Carrie worked in book publishing for several years before getting an MFA in Creative Writing. She especially loves literary fiction, historical fiction, and social, cultural, and historical nonfiction that gets into the weeds of daily life.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/carrie\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball - Shortform Books","description":"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball","og_description":"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/","og_site_name":"Shortform Books","article_published_time":"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2100,"height":1500,"url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carrie Cabral","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carrie Cabral","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/"},"author":{"name":"Carrie Cabral","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56"},"headline":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball","datePublished":"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/"},"wordCount":884,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","keywords":["Moneyball"],"articleSection":["Sports","Statistics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/","name":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball - Shortform Books","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-11T16:39:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-23T18:31:32+00:00","description":"What in on base percentage? Why does it matter in Moneyball? Billy Beane thinks on base percentage is the most important predictor of wins in baseball.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","width":2100,"height":1500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/on-base-percentage\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"On Base Percentage: The Cornerstone of Moneyball"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","name":"Shortform Books","description":"The World's Best Book Summaries","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Shortform Books","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","width":500,"height":74,"caption":"Shortform Books"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2ababb7c63a94ff5d2190f71dc417d56","name":"Carrie Cabral","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e9aea3c95254368e6bf388b046b35bacb82e4167f4c62c0813620e3a4ec51126?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Carrie Cabral"},"description":"Carrie has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember, and has always been open to reading anything put in front of her. She wrote her first short story at the age of six, about a lost dog who meets animal friends on his journey home. Surprisingly, it was never picked up by any major publishers, but did spark her passion for books. Carrie worked in book publishing for several years before getting an MFA in Creative Writing. She especially loves literary fiction, historical fiction, and social, cultural, and historical nonfiction that gets into the weeds of daily life.","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/carrie\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/base-runner-moneyball.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}