{"id":2965,"date":"2020-10-03T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/?page_id=2965"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:06:54","slug":"rip-bob-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"RIP Bob Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Gibson lost his battle with pancreatic cancer Friday.<\/p>\n<p>One of baseball&#8217;s greatest pitchers and fiercest competitors is gone.<\/p>\n<p>He was unrelenting, unapologetic, mean, and fabulous on the field.<\/p>\n<p>There was not an ounce of BS in him, and baseball has truly lost an icon.<\/p>\n<p><em>From Ghetto to Glory<\/em> and <em>Stranger to the Game<\/em> are must-read books for baseball (and Gibson) fans.<\/p>\n<p>Bob, if there&#8217;s one game to win, and I need a right-handed starter, you get the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Bob. I loved watching you pitch and compete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2969\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey.jpg 1760w, https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gibson-jersey-624x433.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bob Gibson lost his battle with pancreatic cancer Friday. One of baseball&#8217;s greatest pitchers and fiercest competitors is gone. He was unrelenting, unapologetic, mean, and fabulous on the field. There was not an ounce of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/?p=2965\" title=\"RIP Bob Gibson\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haughts-thoughts"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}