{"id":8324,"date":"2014-06-24T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:38:25","slug":"stephen-strasburg-quitting-tobacco-citing-tony-gwynns-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/24\/stephen-strasburg-quitting-tobacco-citing-tony-gwynns-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Strasburg quitting tobacco, citing Tony Gwynn&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8325\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/stephenstrasburg.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/stephenstrasburg.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/stephenstrasburg-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg is quitting tobacco in the wake of Tony Gwynn&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Gwynn was Strasburg&#8217;s coach at San Diego State prior to the pitcher being taken No. 1 overall by the Washington Nationals in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a disgusting habit, looking back on it,&#8221; the Nationals right-hander said on Monday. &#8220;I was pretty naive when I started. Just doing it here and there, I didn&#8217;t think it was going to be such an addiction. &#8230; Bottom line is, I want to be around for my family. This is something that can affect people the rest of your life. [Chewing tobacco is] so prevalent in this game. It&#8217;s something we all kind of grew up doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday Strasburg was unaware that Gwynn used chewing tobacco, which the former San Diego Padres outfielder latter attributed to his salivary glands cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg is quitting tobacco in the wake of Tony Gwynn&#8217;s death. Gwynn was Strasburg&#8217;s coach at San Diego State prior to the pitcher being taken No. 1 overall by the Washington Nationals in 2009. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a disgusting habit, looking back on it,&#8221; the Nationals right-hander said on Monday. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,212,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-stephen-strasburg","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}