{"id":3287,"date":"2013-06-25T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2013-06-25T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T00:10:44","slug":"kerry-wood-finds-dead-body-while-paddle-boarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/25\/kerry-wood-finds-dead-body-while-paddle-boarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Wood finds dead body while paddle boarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3288\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3288\" alt=\"kerrywood\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/kerrywood.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/kerrywood.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/kerrywood-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood was out paddle boarding when he found a dead body Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Wood, 36, found a dead man floating in the water of the Chicago harbor and notified authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Wood immediately notified 911 of this discovery,&#8221; according to a police report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-excub-pitcher-kerry-wood-discovers-body-in-belmont-harbor-20130625,0,5346123.story?track=rss\">per the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once police arrived they were able to identify the man from a tag on his left wrist. The man had been reported missing nearly a week ago after he was released from a hospital on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Wood retired from baseball in 2012 and currently works as a spring training instructor with the Cubs. He was a two-time All Star and the 1998 NL Rookie of the Year. Wood is best known for a 20 strike out game against Houston in his rookie season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood was out paddle boarding when he found a dead body Tuesday morning. Wood, 36, found a dead man floating in the water of the Chicago harbor and notified authorities. &#8220;Mr. Wood immediately notified 911 of this discovery,&#8221; according to a police report, per the Chicago Tribune. Once police arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,379],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-kerry-wood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","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=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}