{"id":498290,"date":"2018-07-17T04:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=eb67afb66e7a627a67b8356bee1936be"},"modified":"2018-07-17T04:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:30:01","slug":"the-short-tumultuous-working-life-of-a-major-league-baseball-pitcher-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=498290","title":{"rendered":"The short, tumultuous working life of a major league baseball pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme outliers and often the stars of the game who receive most of the media&#8217;s attention. The reality for most pitchers in baseball is that their professional working lives are surprisingly short\u20143.99 years on average\u2014according to a new method of calculating working life expectancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme outliers and often the stars of the game who receive most of the media&#8217;s attention. The reality for most pitchers in baseball is that their professional working lives are surprisingly short&mdash;3.99 years on average&mdash;according to a new method of calculating working life expectancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498292,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498290\/revisions\/498292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}