{"id":3242,"date":"2014-10-13T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2014-10-13T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T23:30:42","slug":"birmingham-giants-welcome-gaitlin-roberson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Giants welcome Gaitlin Roberson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3244\" src=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gait.jpg\" alt=\"GIANT POLOGROUNDS\" width=\"165\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>The Birmingham Giants are proud to announce Gaitlin Roberson will finally wear the orange and black. After years of playing against the Giants, the Giants were finally able to bring Roberson into the fold. \u00a0A talanted running for Leeds high school, Roberson will be a perfect\u00a0addition to a powerful line that already includes Ethan&#8221;Big Country&#8221; Thrasher (Hatton), Mikey McGuire (St Clair), Ben Jackson (New Life), Quenton Kersey (Truope) in the middle of it. Coach Greg Garcia said of Roberson, &#8221; This is a kid we always wanted to get, it had just never quite worked out. Gaitlin has always given us some problems at the plate, now we dont have to pitch to him anymore&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Giants are proud to announce Gaitlin Roberson will finally wear the orange and black. After years of playing against the Giants, the Giants were finally able to bring Roberson into the fold. \u00a0A talanted running for Leeds high school, Roberson will be a perfect\u00a0addition to a powerful line that already includes Ethan&#8221;Big Country&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,11,77,4,38,6],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alabama-baseball","tag-alabama-travel-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-birmingham-giants","tag-gaitlin-roberson","tag-travel-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}