{"id":5820,"date":"2016-03-04T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/03\/04\/mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:28:07","slug":"mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Paves Way For Cubans To Play In The Big Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/04\/469233667\/mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Brian Naylor<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>3:24<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2016\/03\/20160304_atc_mlb_paves_way_for_cubans_to_play_in_the_big_leagues.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the benefits of improved U.S.-Cuba relations is being played out on the baseball diamond. President Obama is expected to attend an exhibition game in Havana later this month, and Major League Baseball proposed a way to allow Cuban players to play for U.S. teams without having to defect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/04\/469233667\/mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"MLB Paves Way For Cubans To Play In The Big Leagues\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/04\/469233667\/mlb-paves-way-for-cubans-to-play-in-the-big-leagues?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>3:24<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2016\/03\/20160304_atc_mlb_paves_way_for_cubans_to_play_in_the_big_leagues.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the benefits of improved U.S.-Cuba relations is being played out on the baseball diamond. President Obama is expected to attend an exhibition game in Havana later this month, and Major League Baseball proposed a way to allow Cuban players to play for U.S. teams without having to defect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}