{"id":19336,"date":"2008-05-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/manny-inches-closer\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:43:56","slug":"manny-inches-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/13\/manny-inches-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny inches closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Slugger Manny Ramirez took one step closer to joining the 500-homerun club after clubbing his eighth homerun of the season last night. The Dominican-born star hit a shot in his first at bat against the Minnesota Twins to give him 498 dingers for his career. Ramirez&#8217;s homer wasn&#8217;t enough for the great team from Boston as the BoSox lost 7-3. When Ramirez hits his 500th homerun he will join Sammy Sosa as the only Dominicans in the exclusive club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slugger Manny Ramirez took one step closer to joining the 500-homerun club after clubbing his eighth homerun of the season last night. The Dominican-born star hit a shot in his first at bat against the Minnesota Twins to give him 498 dingers for his career. Ramirez&#8217;s homer wasn&#8217;t enough for the great team from Boston &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/13\/manny-inches-closer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}