{"id":7787,"date":"2013-07-15T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T05:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2013-07-16T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:03:24","slug":"hee-seop-choi-%ec%b5%9c%ed%9d%ac%ec%84%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2013\/07\/hee-seop-choi-%ec%b5%9c%ed%9d%ac%ec%84%ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Hee-Seop Choi (\ucd5c\ud76c\uc12d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7788\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0131-Hee-seop-Choi-kia-tigers.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7788\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0131-Hee-seop-Choi-kia-tigers-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"hee seop choi kia tigers gwangju korea dodgers cubs baseball\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0131-Hee-seop-Choi-kia-tigers-800x472.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0131-Hee-seop-Choi-kia-tigers-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0131-Hee-seop-Choi-kia-tigers.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hee-Seop Choi of the KIA Tigers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have mentioned before that I&#8217;m in Korea and have been for the past month. If you want to take a look at some of my recent photos from Korea, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/category\/korea\/>click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of former Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and Los Angeles Dodgers player Hee-Seop Choi. Choi is back in South Korea, playing for his hometown team, the Gwangju KIA Tigers. I&#8217;m living in Gwangju now so I have seen him play several times. Choi was the first Korean position player in Major League Baseball. He didn&#8217;t hit all-star status in MLB, though he was featured in the 2005 Home Run Derby as South Korea&#8217;s representative when they toyed with the international component to the event that year.<\/p>\n<p>He led the KIA Tigers to the Korean Championship in 2009 after leaving MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned before that I&#8217;m in Korea and have been for the past month. If you want to take a look at some of my recent photos from Korea, click here. Today&#8217;s photo is of former Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and Los Angeles Dodgers player Hee-Seop Choi. Choi is back in South Korea, playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,11],"tags":[164,249,170,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}