{"id":5789,"date":"2013-12-28T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2013-12-28T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T23:53:07","slug":"yasiel-puig-arrested-for-reckless-driving-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/28\/yasiel-puig-arrested-for-reckless-driving-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasiel Puig arrested for reckless driving in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5790\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5790\" alt=\"Yasiel Puig arrested for reckless driving\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/yasielpuig.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/yasielpuig.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/yasielpuig-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was arrested on Saturday for reckless driving in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Puig, 23, was pulled over around 9:30 am after he was caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/28\/l-dodgers-all-star-yasiel-puig-arrested-after-driv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">going 110 mph<\/a> in Alligator Alley near mile marker 99. Puig was driving a 2013 Mercedes at the time of his arrest. The speed limit in that area is 70 mph.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Puig had a similar incident in Chattanooga, TN. At that time he was charged with speeding, reckless driving and driving without proof of insurance but charges were later dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a late call up Puig nearly earned a spot on the NL All-Star team and later finished second in Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was arrested on Saturday for reckless driving in Florida. Puig, 23, was pulled over around 9:30 am after he was caught going 110 mph in Alligator Alley near mile marker 99. Puig was driving a 2013 Mercedes at the time of his arrest. The speed limit in that area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,135,501,387],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-yasiel-puig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","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=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}