{"id":33990,"date":"2025-02-21T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/new-york-yankees-announce-change-to-longstanding-facial-hair-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:06:50","slug":"new-york-yankees-announce-change-to-longstanding-facial-hair-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/new-york-yankees-announce-change-to-longstanding-facial-hair-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees announce change to longstanding facial hair policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yankees will allow players to wear \u2018well-groomed beards\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Strict policy was imposed by George Steinbrenner in 1976<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n<p>Current owner Hal Steinbrenner, son of The Boss, announced the change Friday before the team\u2019s spring training opener.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/21\/new-york-yankees-facial-hair-policy-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees will allow players to wear \u2018well-groomed beards\u2019 Strict policy was imposed by George Steinbrenner in 1976 The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner. Current owner Hal Steinbrenner, son of The Boss, announced the change Friday before the team\u2019s spring training opener. &#8230; <a title=\"New York Yankees announce change to longstanding facial hair policy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/new-york-yankees-announce-change-to-longstanding-facial-hair-policy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York Yankees announce change to longstanding facial hair policy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}