{"id":4523,"date":"2013-08-25T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T15:44:33","slug":"wrestling-legend-goldberg-throws-out-first-pitch-spears-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/25\/wrestling-legend-goldberg-throws-out-first-pitch-spears-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling legend Goldberg throws out first pitch, spears catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4524\" alt=\"billgoldberg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/billgoldberg.jpg\" width=\"628\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/billgoldberg.jpg 628w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/billgoldberg-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill Goldberg is one few wrestling names that even those who have never followed the &#8220;sport&#8221; are aware of.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the former heavyweight champion was on hand to throw out the first pitch at a Miami Marlins game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=29996885&amp;width=600&amp;height=336&amp;property=mlb\" height=\"336\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After throwing out the first pitch, Goldberg speared the catcher. While normally the person catching a first pitch is a member of the home team, the catcher in this instance was clearly a designated victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Goldberg is one few wrestling names that even those who have never followed the &#8220;sport&#8221; are aware of. On Saturday the former heavyweight champion was on hand to throw out the first pitch at a Miami Marlins game. After throwing out the first pitch, Goldberg speared the catcher. While normally the person catching a [&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":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4523","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\/4523","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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}