{"id":20059,"date":"2020-04-07T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20059"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:14:54","slug":"rip-al-kaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20059","title":{"rendered":"RIP Al Kaline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know when a sports figure that has been there for your entire life dies, it makes a difference&#8230;especially one as special as Al Kaline who played his entire career with the Tigers and was part of the team from the time I started to love baseball when I was about 5 years old&#8230;.Mr. Kaline died yesterday at the age of 85 after a short illness and for once, there is nothing but good to say about one of my heroes&#8230;he was one of my role models growing up with his innate goodness that he showed every day of his long life&#8230;I actually met him once and got his autograph when I was about 10 when my father took me to see some of the Tigers that were traveling around the state before the season started&#8230;I know there were others there but I don&#8217;t remember any of them&#8230;but I do remember Al&#8230;.There will never be another one like &#8220;Mr. Tiger&#8221;&#8230;.RIP Al&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know when a sports figure that has been there for your entire life dies, it makes a difference&#8230;especially one as special as Al Kaline who played his entire career with the Tigers and was part of the team from the time I started to love baseball when I was about 5 years old&#8230;.Mr. Kaline &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Al Kaline<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2503],"class_list":["post-20059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-al-kaline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20060,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions\/20060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}