{"id":161756,"date":"2019-01-08T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161756"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:29:05","slug":"joe-mauers-number-to-be-retired-jun-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161756","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mauer&#8217;s number to be retired, Jun 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142733\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-431x240.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-862x480.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer-314x175.jpg 314w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mauer.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/news\/twins-will-retire-joe-mauer-jersey-on-june-15\/c-302472158\">MLB.com<\/a>)\u00a0 Mark your calendars, Twins fans: Saturday, June 15, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/408045\/joe-mauer\" data-player-link=\"408045\">Joe Mauer<\/a> Day at Target Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins announced Tuesday that they will retire Mauer&#8217;s No. 7 in a special ceremony before their 6:10 p.m. CT game against the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>The first 20,000 fans at the game will also receive a Mauer No. 7 baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p>Mauer, a Minnesota native, will become the eighth Twins player or manager to have his number retired, joining fellow franchise icons Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Kent Hrbek, Rod Carew, Kirby Puckett, Bert Blyleven and Tom Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MLB.com)\u00a0 Mark your calendars, Twins fans: Saturday, June 15, will be Joe Mauer Day at Target Field. The Twins announced Tuesday that they will retire Mauer&#8217;s No. 7 in a special ceremony before their 6:10 p.m. CT game against the Royals. The first 20,000 fans at the game will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161758,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161756\/revisions\/161758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}