{"id":6241,"date":"2014-02-05T23:46:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2014-02-05T23:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:46:24","slug":"curt-schilling-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/05\/curt-schilling-diagnosed-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Schilling diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6242\" alt=\"curtschilling\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/curtschilling.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/curtschilling.jpg 650w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/curtschilling-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Major League pitcher Curt Schilling has been diagnosed with cancer. Schilling did not say what type of cancer he had in a statement released by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always believed life is about embracing the gifts and rising up to meet the challenges,&#8221; said Schilling &#8220;&#8230; I&#8217;ve been so very blessed and I feel grateful for what God has allowed my family to have and experience, and I&#8217;ll embrace this fight just like the rest of them, with resolute faith and head on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schilling retired after the 2007 season. In 20 big league seasons he had a 216-146 record with a 3.46 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP. He was a six time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League pitcher Curt Schilling has been diagnosed with cancer. Schilling did not say what type of cancer he had in a statement released by ESPN. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always believed life is about embracing the gifts and rising up to meet the challenges,&#8221; said Schilling &#8220;&#8230; I&#8217;ve been so very blessed and I feel grateful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[21,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-curt-schilling","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","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=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}