{"id":8696,"date":"2015-03-25T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2015-03-25T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:30:14","slug":"young-woman-owes-her-life-to-ballplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8696","title":{"rendered":"Young woman owes her life to ballplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evan Longoria&#039;s Catch saves Reporter&#039;s Life!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DKMllY6jHp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MESA, Ariz. &#8212; <\/strong>I&#8217;m in a baseball frame of mind today, having attended a spring training blowout game between the Oakland A&#8217;s and the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>My brother-in-law brought this video (attached to this link) to our attention tonight. It shows Evan Longoria saving the life of a young reporter who was interviewing him along the first base line.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly on instinct, Longoria reached out to grab the baseball that flew off a hitter&#8217;s bat and was heading straight for her head.<\/p>\n<p>I want to share this to illustrate that miracles do happen. It&#8217;s pretty astonishing to say the very least.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it is my sincere hope the young reporter sends Longoria flowers for his birthday, for Christmas,\u00a0Easter &#8230; and any holiday under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MESA, Ariz. &#8212; I&#8217;m in a baseball frame of mind today, having attended a spring training blowout game between the Oakland A&#8217;s and the Chicago Cubs. My brother-in-law brought this video (attached to this link) to our attention tonight. It shows Evan Longoria saving the life of a young reporter who was interviewing him along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young woman owes her life to ballplayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1650,1668,4377],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-evan-longoria","tag-exhibition-baseball","tag-spring-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}