{"id":88311,"date":"2015-11-23T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88311"},"modified":"2015-11-23T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:13:10","slug":"carew-hoping-for-heart-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88311","title":{"rendered":"Carew hoping for heart transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Carewyoungphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88312\" alt=\"Carewyoungphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Carewyoungphoto.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Hall of Famer Rod Carew is hoping to qualify for a heart transplant after a massive heart attack two months ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 70-year-old Carew tells Sports Illustrated he was stricken while golfing alone in Corona, California, on Sept. 20.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells the magazine &#8220;they brought me back to life.&#8221; He underwent six hours of open heart surgery in which a device that pumps blood was implanted. The device typically acts as a bridge until a heart transplant.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carew was one of baseball&#8217;s great hitters, winning seven American League batting titles. He played for the Minnesota Twins and California Angels during a 19-year career. He was the 1967 AL Rookie of the Year and the 1977 AL MVP. There is a statue of him outside Target Field in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Hall of Famer Rod Carew is hoping to qualify for a heart transplant after a massive heart attack two months ago. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 70-year-old Carew tells Sports Illustrated he was stricken while golfing alone in Corona, California, on Sept. 20. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tells the magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88311","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\/88311","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=88311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88317,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88311\/revisions\/88317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}