{"id":50282,"date":"2001-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/alex-rodriguez-named-ambassador-for-dr-2\/"},"modified":"2001-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"alex-rodriguez-named-ambassador-for-dr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/02\/09\/alex-rodriguez-named-ambassador-for-dr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez named ambassador for DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit to President Hipolito Mejia, Alex Rodriguez, the best paid baseball player in the US (he recently signed a 10-year US$252 million contract with the Texas Rangers), spoke of his goal for next year. He said that his goal is to break Ernie Banks&#8217; homerun record of four seasons batting 40 or more home runs. President Mejia named Rodriguez ambassador for the Dominican Republic in the world. (9 February 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit to President Hipolito Mejia, Alex Rodriguez, the best paid baseball player in the US (he recently signed a 10-year US$252 million contract with the Texas Rangers), spoke of his goal for next year. He said that his goal is to break Ernie Banks&#8217; homerun record of four seasons batting 40 or more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/02\/09\/alex-rodriguez-named-ambassador-for-dr-2\/\" 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":[17,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282"}],"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=50282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}