{"id":1882,"date":"2014-07-28T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2014-07-28T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T02:37:37","slug":"japanese-martial-artist-breaks-10-stone-blocks-before-throwing-out-first-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/07\/28\/japanese-martial-artist-breaks-10-stone-blocks-before-throwing-out-first-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese martial artist breaks 10 stone blocks before throwing out first pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/stones.jpg\" alt=\"stones\" width=\"562\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1883\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/stones.jpg 562w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/stones-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><br \/>\nWe have seen some impressive first pitches over the last few years but Rina Takeda may have topped them wall.<\/p>\n<p>Takeda, 23, threw out the first pitch prior to a game between the Chiba Lotte Marines and Seibu Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just wind up and throw one, she broke 10 stone blocks with her head and then delivered the pitch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/101835697\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well I for one am impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen some impressive first pitches over the last few years but Rina Takeda may have topped them wall. Takeda, 23, threw out the first pitch prior to a game between the Chiba Lotte Marines and Seibu Lions. Rather than just wind up and throw one, she broke 10 stone blocks with her head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}