{"id":16981,"date":"2014-04-01T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-honored-at-white-house\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:40:00","slug":"red-sox-honored-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-honored-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox honored at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox were honored for their World Series championship by President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I invited the Red Sox here today, but there must be a mistake because I don&#8217;t recognize all these clean-shaven guys,&#8221; joked President Obama. &#8220;Beards or no beards, it is an honor to welcome the 2013 World Series champion Boston Red Sox to the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama singled out a few members of the team in his remarks, including World Series MVP David Ortiz, who presented the President a Red Sox jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The President also praised the Red Sox for their contributions to helping the city of Boston recover from last April&#8217;s Boston Marathon bombings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was something about this particular squad that was special,&#8221; said the President. &#8220;Not just because they went from worst to first, but because they symbolized grit and resilience of one of America&#8217;s iconic cities in one of its difficult moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox had Tuesday off after opening their 2014 campaign with a 2-1 loss to the Orioles in Baltimore on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox were honored for their World Series championship by President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House. &#8220;I thought I invited the Red Sox here today, but there must be a mistake because I don&#8217;t recognize all these clean-shaven guys,&#8221; joked President Obama. &#8220;Beards or no beards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}