{"id":30666,"date":"2023-06-09T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=30666"},"modified":"2023-06-09T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:06:28","slug":"hall-of-famer-fergie-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/06\/hall-of-famer-fergie-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Famer Fergie Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chatham-Kent will honour Baseball Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballhall.org\/hall-of-famers\/jenkins-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fergie Jenkins<\/a> tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30667\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2023\/06\/47f63338-fergie-badge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2023\/06\/47f63338-fergie-badge.png 561w, https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2023\/06\/47f63338-fergie-badge-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/>A full-size replica of the bronze statue of Jenkins that sits outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>\u2019 Wrigley Field has been gifted to Chatham-Kent and is being unveiled at 2pm in front of the Civic Centre in Chatham and is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A family-friendly after-party will be held at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonsofkent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sons of Kent<\/a>, featuring a Family Fun Zone, where the first 300 children will receive a complimentary Rawlings Chicago Cubs baseball, hot dog and beverage.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling and the after party are open to everyone at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Fergie talked to CKMORNINGS about what the statue means to him and his family&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"soundcloud-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soundcloud-shortcode\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/943cksy\/june-9-fergie&color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chatham-Kent will honour Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins tomorrow. A full-size replica of the bronze statue of Jenkins that sits outside of the Chicago Cubs\u2019 Wrigley Field has been gifted to Chatham-Kent and is being unveiled at 2pm in front of the Civic Centre in Chatham and is open to the public. A family-friendly","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,2746,4183],"class_list":["post-30666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","tag-ckmornings","tag-fergie-jenkins","tag-fergiejune10"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 00:56:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/943cksy.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/06\/hall-of-famer-fergie-jenkins\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30668,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions\/30668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}