{"id":2668,"date":"2008-06-19T04:57:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2008-06-19T05:28:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:28:49","slug":"former-car-salesman-pitching-for-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"Former Car Salesman Pitching For Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When baseball player <strong>Dan Giese<\/strong>, 31, retired after six years playing minor league baseball, he moved to Carlsbad and began selling used cars, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ipAh7NwnOM1B5q_gnS845OHR7Abw\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/strong>. But that wasn&#8217;t the end of his baseball career. This Saturday Giese will get his first major league start as he stands in for Taiwanese hurler <strong>Chien-Ming Wang<\/strong> when the <strong>Yankees<\/strong> take on the <strong>Cincinnati Reds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In Carlsbad you never know who you&#8217;re dealing with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ipAh7NwnOM1B5q_gnS845OHR7Abw\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When baseball player Dan Giese, 31, retired after six years playing minor league baseball, he moved to Carlsbad and began selling used cars, according to a story on AFP. But that wasn&#8217;t the end of his baseball career. This Saturday Giese will get his first major league start as he stands in for Taiwanese hurler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}