{"id":1391,"date":"2007-08-20T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2007-08-20T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T22:13:54","slug":"meet-yu-darivish-an-iranian-japanese-pro-baseball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/meet-yu-darivish-an-iranian-japanese-pro-baseball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Yu Darivish, the first Iranian-Japanese pro baseball player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/yudarvish.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\/>This past weekend I&#8217;ve been helping <a href=\"http:\/\/aarontassano.com\">Aaron<\/a> set up a new blog called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eastwindupchronicle.com\">East<\/a> . . . a windup chronicle of Baseball, Culture, Art, and Politics from the Pacific Rim.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He posted <a href=\"http:\/\/eastwindupchronicle.com\/?p=5\">today<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yu_Darvish\">Yu Darvish<\/a>, a new 20-year-old hotshot Japanese pitcher who has an Iranian father and a Japanese mother. He&#8217;s the ace for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got his own <a href=\"http:\/\/darvish-yu.jp\/en\/info\/index.cgi\">site<\/a>, and his own <a href=\"http:\/\/yudarvish.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/who-is-yu-darvish.html\">fan site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think he just might be the first pro baseball player of Iranian ancestry ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I&#8217;ve been helping Aaron set up a new blog called &#8220;East . . . a windup chronicle of Baseball, Culture, Art, and Politics from the Pacific Rim.&#8221; He posted today about Yu Darvish, a new 20-year-old hotshot Japanese pitcher who has an Iranian father and a Japanese mother. He&#8217;s the ace for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. He&#8217;s got his own site, and his own fan site. I think he just might be the first pro baseball&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-baseball","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-mr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}