{"id":71415,"date":"2026-04-10T19:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/ichiro-suzuki-statue-unveiling-goes-awry-as-bronze-bat-snaps-during-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:01:53","slug":"ichiro-suzuki-statue-unveiling-goes-awry-as-bronze-bat-snaps-during-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/ichiro-suzuki-statue-unveiling-goes-awry-as-bronze-bat-snaps-during-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ichiro Suzuki statue unveiling goes awry as bronze bat snaps during ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mariners unveil Ichiro statue at Seattle ballpark<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bronze bat snaps as curtain drops at ceremony<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Suzuki laughs off mishap with Mariano joke<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, snap.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s statue had an unforced error on Friday \u2013 a broken bat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/10\/ichiro-suzuki-statue-bat-snaps-seattle-mariners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariners unveil Ichiro statue at Seattle ballpark Bronze bat snaps as curtain drops at ceremony Suzuki laughs off mishap with Mariano joke Oh, snap. The unveiling of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki\u2019s statue had an unforced error on Friday \u2013 a broken bat. Continue reading&#8230;<\/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-71415","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\/71415","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=71415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}