{"id":9440,"date":"2012-05-07T05:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T12:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2012-05-06T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T05:25:08","slug":"albert-pujols-hits-his-first-american-league-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/albert-pujols-hits-his-first-american-league-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols hits his first American League home run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8865albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8865albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"albert pujols\" title=\"albert pujols los angeles angels first home run\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8865albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8865albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8865albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/04\/jered-weaver-and-albert-pujols\/>Albert Pujols<\/a> hit is first home run (after the longest drought in his superstar career) as a member of the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8866albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8866albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x657.jpg\" alt=\"pujols hall of fame\" title=\"albert pujols los angeles angels first home run\" width=\"800\" height=\"657\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8866albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x657.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8866albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-250x205.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8866albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg 1314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I saw him hit is first home run a few weeks ago when I was in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8867albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8867albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"albert pujols hr\" title=\"albert pujols los angeles angels first home run\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8867albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x698.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8867albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-250x218.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8867albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this swing that looked so promising &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8870albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8870albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"oakland athletics josh reddick\" title=\"reddick coco crisp oakland a&#039;s\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8870albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8870albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/124_8870albert-pujols-los-angeles-angels-first-home-run.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; ended up with the ball being caught by Josh Reddick just before the warning track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Albert Pujols hit is first home run (after the longest drought in his superstar career) as a member of the Los Angeles Angels. I thought I saw him hit is first home run a few weeks ago when I was in Anaheim. But this swing that looked so promising &#8230; &#8230; ended up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[395,82,398,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}