{"id":750,"date":"2015-04-15T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-04-15T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:49:50","slug":"honoring-jackie-robinson-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Jackie Robinson in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/honoring-jackie-robinson\/\" target=\"blank\">NASA astronaut Terry Virts<\/a>, wearing a replica\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackierobinson.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Jackie Robinson<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0jersey in the cupola of the orbiting International Space Station, is celebrating\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/eye-on-baseball\/25149835\/eye-on-mlb-april-15-jackie-robinson-day\" target=\"blank\">Jackie Robinson Day<\/a>, April 15, with a weightless baseball.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"SpaceBall2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SpaceBall2.png\" alt=\"SpaceBall2\" width=\"513\" height=\"513\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April 15th (Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening day in 1947)\u00c2\u00a0has now come to commemorate Jackie Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s memorable career and his place in history as the first black major league baseball player in the modern era. He made history with the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the Los Angeles Dodgers) and was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Jackie, for your courage! \u00c2\u00a0Thank you, Terry, for a memorable celebration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Terry Virts, wearing a replica\u00c2\u00a0Jackie Robinson\u00c2\u00a0jersey in the cupola of the orbiting International Space Station, is celebrating\u00c2\u00a0Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, with a weightless baseball. April 15th (Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening day in 1947)\u00c2\u00a0has now come to commemorate Jackie Robinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,181],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-champion","category-space-travel","tag-jackie-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}