{"id":7761,"date":"2014-05-16T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2014-05-16T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:32:42","slug":"heroic-cat-to-throw-out-first-pitch-at-minor-league-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/16\/heroic-cat-to-throw-out-first-pitch-at-minor-league-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic cat to throw out first pitch at minor league baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/taracat.jpg\" alt=\"taracat\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7762\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/taracat.jpg 590w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/taracat-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\nYou probably have seen the video by now. The heroic cat who saved a young boy from a dog, all caught on surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the Bakersfield Blaze, a minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, will have the cat on hand to throw out the first pitch of their May 20 game against Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WW1aZuS7Sg4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The cat who lives in Bakersfield is named Tara and reached international fame Wednesday when a video was released showing the cat chase off a dog that was attacking a boy.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/local-news\/famous-bakersfield-cat-to-throw-first-pitch-at-bakersfield-blaze-game-051514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kero Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have seen the video by now. The heroic cat who saved a young boy from a dog, all caught on surveillance cameras. On Thursday the Bakersfield Blaze, a minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, will have the cat on hand to throw out the first pitch of their May 20 game against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","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=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}