{"id":92920,"date":"2024-08-11T17:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92920"},"modified":"2024-08-11T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:31:16","slug":"rest-in-peace-billy-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/08\/11\/rest-in-peace-billy-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Billy Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may know that <strong>Billy Bean <\/strong>came out way back in 1999 \u2013 only the second <em>Major League Baseball <\/em>player to do so.&nbsp; Even after he retired from playing pro ball, he returned to the sport as the <em>MLB<\/em>\u2019s first <em>Ambassador for Inclusion<\/em> in 2014.&nbsp; Later, he became the league\u2019s <em>Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<\/em>.&nbsp; He was truly a leader in our community, and for me, a dear personal friend.&nbsp; Last year, Billy was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.&nbsp; He passed away on August 6<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; He was one of the good guys and will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may know that Billy Bean came out way back in 1999 \u2013 only the second Major League Baseball player to do so.&nbsp; Even after he retired from playing pro ball, he returned to the sport as the MLB\u2019s first Ambassador for Inclusion in 2014.&nbsp; Later, he became the league\u2019s Senior Vice President for Diversity,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92921,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920\/revisions\/92921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}