{"id":662522,"date":"2026-04-04T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:01:57","slug":"controversial-statue-draws-scrutiny-at-globe-life-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662522\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial statue draws scrutiny at Globe Life Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                On the Texas Rangers\u2019 home\u2011opening day at Globe Life Field, fans saw more than just baseball. While the Rangers lost 5\u20133 to the Cincinnati Reds, a newly installed \u201cOne Riot, One Ranger\u201d statue inside the ballpark drew significant attention and controversy. The 12\u2011foot figure, added last month, has prompted questions about its history and symbolism. Congressman Marc Veasey is calling on the Rangers to remove it, and the team has offered its own explanation for why the statue is on display.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the Texas Rangers\u2019 home\u2011opening day at Globe Life Field, fans saw more than just baseball. While the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,4,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-662522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rangers","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-rangers","13":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116345865215173235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}