{"id":83473,"date":"2012-08-16T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26854"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:11:47","slug":"hawks-kokubo-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hawks-kokubo-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk\u2019s Kokubo Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was a sad day for Fukuoka\u2019s hometown baseball team and fans, as Softbank Hawks\u2019 team captain Hiroki Kokubo announced his retirement from baseball. The professional baseball player has seen a long and successful career. He said he decided to retire after reaching the limit of his physical strength. He\u2019s a Golden Glove award winner and has broken the 2000 hits record. Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nishinippon.co.jp\/nsp\/item\/318614 \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nishinippon.co.jp\/nsp\/item\/318614 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hiroki_Kokubo_2010.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hiroki_Kokubo_2010.jpg?resize=640%2C1034\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hiroki_Kokubo_2010\" width=\"640\" height=\"1034\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hiroki_Kokubo_2010.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hiroki_Kokubo_2010.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hiroki_Kokubo_2010.jpg?resize=633%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was a sad day for Fukuoka\u2019s hometown baseball team and fans, as Softbank Hawks\u2019 team captain Hiroki Kokubo announced his retirement from baseball. The professional baseball player has seen a long and successful career. He said he decided to retire after reaching the limit of his physical strength. He\u2019s a Golden Glove award winner and has broken the 2000 hits record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-83473","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/83473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}