{"id":9239,"date":"2014-10-29T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T05:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2014-10-29T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T05:11:19","slug":"jose-canseco-accidentally-shoots-himself-while-cleaning-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/29\/jose-canseco-accidentally-shoots-himself-while-cleaning-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Canseco accidentally shoots himself while cleaning gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2657\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/canseco.jpg\" alt=\"canseco\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/canseco.jpg 500w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/canseco-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/canseco-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Major Leaguer Jose Canseco accidentally shot himself in the hand while cleaning a gun on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Just in: According to KSNV-TV in Las Vegas, former baseball star Jose Canseco shoots self in finger while cleaning gun. Accidental. Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Mott (@RonMott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonMott\/status\/527272172663111682\">October 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TMZ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2014\/10\/28\/jose-canseco-shot-finger-gun-cleaning-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports <\/a>that Canseco shot off his middle finger with the following details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jose&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e <strong>Leila Knight<\/strong> tells <strong>TMZ Sports<\/strong> &#8230; he was sitting at a table in their home cleaning the gun when it went off. She says he didn&#8217;t know it was loaded &#8212; and the shot ripped through the middle finger on his left hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canseco is said to have lost any potential use of the finger. He is currently in surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major Leaguer Jose Canseco accidentally shot himself in the hand while cleaning a gun on Tuesday. Just in: According to KSNV-TV in Las Vegas, former baseball star Jose Canseco shoots self in finger while cleaning gun. Accidental. Surgery. \u2014 Ron Mott (@RonMott) October 29, 2014 TMZ reports that Canseco shot off his middle finger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[345,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jose-canseco","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","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=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}