{"id":6095,"date":"2014-01-26T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2014-01-26T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:01:54","slug":"jim-thome-statue-date-announced-for-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/26\/jim-thome-statue-date-announced-for-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Thome statue date announced for August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jimthomestatue.jpg\" alt=\"jimthomestatue\" width=\"850\" height=\"560\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6096\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jimthomestatue.jpg 850w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jimthomestatue-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Cleveland Indians will honor former player Jim Thome by erecting a bronze statue outside of Progressive Field this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On August 2 prior to a game against the Texas Rangers, a life-sized statue of Thome will make its public appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Currently there have been no leaks of what the statue may look like but it was announced previously that the statue would feature Thome&#8217;s unmistakable batting stance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNwMGcvIej8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thome was a member of the Indians from 1991-2002 before he signed a six-year deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. He later played with the\u00a0Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins before finishing out his career with stints with the Indians, Phillies and Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians will honor former player Jim Thome by erecting a bronze statue outside of Progressive Field this summer. On August 2 prior to a game against the Texas Rangers, a life-sized statue of Thome will make its public appearance. Currently there have been no leaks of what the statue may look like but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,503,132,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jim-thome","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","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=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}