{"id":73983,"date":"2017-08-13T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73983"},"modified":"2017-08-13T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:50:22","slug":"chris-rowley-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73983","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rowley and history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73984\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chris-Rowley-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chris-Rowley-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chris-Rowley-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chris-Rowley-500x314.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chris-Rowley.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bill sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/248019882\/blue-jays-army-vet-chris-rowley-strong-debut\/\">MLB.COM<\/a> in regards to the Toronto Blue Jays new pitcher, Chris Rowley, who became the first West Point graduate to pitch for Major League Baseball last night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rowley became the first graduate of United States Military Academy to pitch in the Major Leagues when he debuted Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre. More important, Rowley left a lasting impression by tossing 5 1\/3 strong innings in Toronto&#8217;s 7-2 victory over the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two years ago, Rowley was on active duty in the United States Army. The big leagues were nothing more than a pipe dream for the undrafted pitcher, who joined the Toronto organization as a Minor League free agent in the summer of 2013. Now he has a Major League win and an entirely new country filled with fans who are quickly learning his backstory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a West Point grad, he sure needs a haircut and a shave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill sends us a link from MLB.COM in regards to the Toronto Blue Jays new pitcher, &hellip; <a title=\"Chris Rowley and history\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73983\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Rowley and history<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}