{"id":1399,"date":"2013-02-17T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2013-02-17T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T16:52:58","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-to-give-away-joe-maddon-gnome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/17\/tampa-bay-rays-to-give-away-joe-maddon-gnome\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays to give away Joe Maddon gnome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1400 alignright\" alt=\"maddonbobblehead\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/maddonbobblehead.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"230\" \/>The Tampa Bay Rays released their promotional schedule recently and one of the more interesting giveaways is a Joe Maddon gnome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s somewhat overwhelming to be characterized in gnomedom like that. It&#8217;s really difficult to describe that feeling that someone has at that moment. I&#8217;m pleased, I&#8217;m honored, I&#8217;m humbled by the entire event. And hopefully I won&#8217;t scare too many kids&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/baseball\/rays\/rays-rail\/1275559\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Maddon of the gnome.<\/p>\n<p>Maddon&#8217;s gnome features his signature glasses, a Rays sweatshirt and a pointed hat. It will be given away on April 24 when the New York Yankees come to town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays released their promotional schedule recently and one of the more interesting giveaways is a Joe Maddon gnome. &#8220;It&#8217;s somewhat overwhelming to be characterized in gnomedom like that. It&#8217;s really difficult to describe that feeling that someone has at that moment. I&#8217;m pleased, I&#8217;m honored, I&#8217;m humbled by the entire event. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-1399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}