{"id":20909,"date":"2011-07-28T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20909"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T21:00:41","slug":"former-yankee-pitcher-hideki-irabu-dies-in-apparent-suicide-jet-alum-served-as-his-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/28\/former-yankee-pitcher-hideki-irabu-dies-in-apparent-suicide-jet-alum-served-as-his-translator\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Yankee pitcher Hideki Irabu dies in apparent suicide; JET alum served as his translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20910\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20910\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20910\" title=\"GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GeorgeRoseHidekiIrabu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JET alum George Rose (left) in his role as translator for Hideki Irabu (right).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>**************<\/p>\n<p>Former star pitcher <strong>Hideki Irabu<\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/28\/former-yankee-pitcher-hideki-irabu-found-dead-possible-suicide-investigation-hanged-himself-hanging\/\">apparently found dead in his apartment by friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, former JETAA New York President <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/best-of-jq-pride-of-the-yankees-far-east-edition-summer-2008\/\"><strong>George Rose<\/strong><\/a> had served as Irabu&#8217;s translator during his time with the Yankees when they won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Irabu-san.\u00a0 Thanks for the memories and for doing your part to bridge the culture gap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>************** Former star pitcher Hideki Irabu was apparently found dead in his apartment by friends. Notably, former JETAA New York President George Rose had served as Irabu&#8217;s translator during his time with the Yankees when they won the World Series. Rest in peace, Irabu-san.\u00a0 Thanks for the memories and for doing your part to bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[26,30,304,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-notable-jet-alums","category-translatinginterpreting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20913,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909\/revisions\/20913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}