{"id":569,"date":"2013-03-06T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:28:27","slug":"red-sox-pitcher-britton-arrested-in-florida-on-suspicion-of-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/red-sox-pitcher-britton-arrested-in-florida-on-suspicion-of-drunk-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Pitcher, Drake Britton, Arrested in Florida on Suspicion of Drunk Driving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drake Britton, a 23 year-old left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida this past Saturday March 2 on multiple charges, including drunk driving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEczQaYdmUk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Britton, who was vying for a spot in the Red Sox major league bullpen this upcoming season, was clocked going 111 mph according to the police officer who pulled him over. 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Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake Britton, a 23 year-old left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida this past Saturday March 2 on multiple charges, including drunk driving. Britton, who was vying for a spot in the Red Sox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/red-sox-pitcher-britton-arrested-in-florida-on-suspicion-of-drunk-driving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7,14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonmacaraccidentlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}