{"id":6133,"date":"2012-10-23T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:33:37","slug":"white-sox-fire-ozzie-guillen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Fire Ozzie Guillen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Guillenozzie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6134\" title=\"Miami Marlins v Washington Nationals\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Guillenozzie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>MIAMI (AP) &#8211; Ozzie Guillen has been fired after one year as manager of the last-place Miami Marlins, whose promising season began to derail in April when his laudatory comments about Fidel<br \/>\nCastro caused a backlash.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Marlins announced the firing Tuesday. They still owe Guillen $7.5 million for the three years remaining on his contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The franchise was supposedly transformed by a spending spree<br \/>\nlast offseason and the move into a new ballpark, and the Marlins<br \/>\nexpected to contend for a playoff berth. But a dismal June took<br \/>\nthem out of contention for good.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The season went sour from the start when Guillen&#8217;s comments<br \/>\npraising former Cuban leader Castro in a magazine interview angered<br \/>\nCuban Americans, who make up a large segment of the Marlins&#8217; fan<br \/>\nbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) &#8211; Ozzie Guillen has been fired after one year as manager of the last-place Miami Marlins, whose promising season began to derail in April when his laudatory comments about Fidel Castro caused a backlash. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Marlins announced the firing Tuesday. They still owe Guillen $7.5 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","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\/6133","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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}