{"id":46817,"date":"1999-12-20T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-12-20T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/a-christmas-jeep\/"},"modified":"1999-12-20T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-12-20T01:43:56","slug":"a-christmas-jeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/12\/20\/a-christmas-jeep\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas jeep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guzm&aacute;n, Pedro Julio Astacio, Ram&oacute;n Mart&iacute;nez, three successful Dominican Major League baseball players surprised Dodgers scout Elvio Jim&eacute;nez with a brand new Mitsubishi Montero jeep last Tuesday. The players engaged him in conversation and tricked him into accompanying them to the Quisqueya Ball Park parking lot. There they presented him with a brand new jeep, a gift of the threesome and Pedro Mart&iacute;nez in appreciation. Pedro Mart&iacute;nez, the Major League&#8217;s best pitcher in 1999, spoke with him by cellular and told Jim&eacute;nez, &quot;Elvio, you deserve that and more, enjoy the jeep and God bless you.&quot; Jim&eacute;nez discovered the players and recommended that the Dodgers sign them. Jim&eacute;nez said that the jeep is a first from successful players. He praised the foursome, saying they were in a class by themselves, for their simplicity and humbleness, virtues he said came from their family&#8217;s upbringing. Up to now, Jim&eacute;nez was driving a 1987 Mazda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guzm&aacute;n, Pedro Julio Astacio, Ram&oacute;n Mart&iacute;nez, three successful Dominican Major League baseball players surprised Dodgers scout Elvio Jim&eacute;nez with a brand new Mitsubishi Montero jeep last Tuesday. The players engaged him in conversation and tricked him into accompanying them to the Quisqueya Ball Park parking lot. There they presented him with a brand new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/12\/20\/a-christmas-jeep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817"}],"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=46817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}