{"id":3054,"date":"2013-06-09T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2013-06-09T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:22:57","slug":"chipper-jones-tweets-joke-about-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/09\/chipper-jones-tweets-joke-about-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipper Jones tweets joke about illegal immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3055\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3055\" alt=\"chipperjones\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chipperjones.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chipperjones.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chipperjones-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chipper Jones is rather outspoken on twitter since his baseball career has come to an end. On Saturday the former Atlanta Braves player made a joke about illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Y&#8217;all think if they took all them gators they trap in Fla and La and put them in the Rio Grande, it wud stop the illegals from crossing? Jk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCJ10\/status\/343444889469612033\">June 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since there is nothing else to say about this we&#8217;ll just go ahead and provide Chippers career stats. In 19 big league seasons Jones had 2726 hits, a .303 average, 468 home runs and 1623 RBI. Jones was the 2008 NL Batting champion and the 1999 NL MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chipper Jones is rather outspoken on twitter since his baseball career has come to an end. On Saturday the former Atlanta Braves player made a joke about illegal immigrants. Y&#8217;all think if they took all them gators they trap in Fla and La and put them in the Rio Grande, it wud stop the illegals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[265],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chipper-jones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}