{"id":17385,"date":"2014-04-11T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-manager-gardenhire-to-miss-two-games-for-funeral\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:42:00","slug":"twins-manager-gardenhire-to-miss-two-games-for-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-manager-gardenhire-to-miss-two-games-for-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins manager Gardenhire to miss two games for funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire will miss the team&#8217;s games Friday and Saturday against the Kansas City Royals so he can attend the funeral of Michael Hirschbeck.<\/p>\n<p>Hirschbeck, the 27-year-old son of Major League umpire John Hirschbeck, passed away Tuesday. He suffered from rare brain disorder called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) since he was a child.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second son of John Hirschbeck to pass away from the same disease. His 8-year-old son, John Drew, died in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Bench coach Terry Steinbach will manage the Twins in Gardenhire&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire will miss the team&#8217;s games Friday and Saturday against the Kansas City Royals so he can attend the funeral of Michael Hirschbeck. Hirschbeck, the 27-year-old son of Major League umpire John Hirschbeck, passed away Tuesday. He suffered from rare brain disorder called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) since he [&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":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-17385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385","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=17385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}