{"id":149,"date":"2008-01-25T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:19:35","slug":"vicente-padilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/vicente-padilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicente Padilla."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, looks like I need to clarify something. Andrew Johnson at <a href=http:\/\/defensive-indifference.com\/2008\/01\/24\/vicente-padilla-is-a-serious-boozehound\/>his Defensive Indifference blog<\/a> accused me of dropping an unsubstantiated allegation that Vicente Padilla has a drinking problem in my chat yesterday. I just want to point out that Padilla&#8217;s addiction to alcohol is no secret; he was driving drunk in Nicaragua two years ago with a friend in the passenger&#8217;s seat, got in an accident, and caused his friend&#8217;s death. Here&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/archivo.elnuevodiario.com.ni\/2004\/febrero\/02-febrero-2004\/nacional\/nacional10.html>an article from a Nicaraguan newspaper<\/a> that says that he was drunk at the time of the accident and driving over 150 km\/hour, and implies that the whole incident was smoothed over by local police. He was also arrested in Dallas in 2006 on <a href=http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/baseball\/rangers\/stories\/080106dnspopadilla.1559bbe.html>suspicion of DUI<\/a>. Now, on top of that, I&#8217;ve talked to plenty of people in baseball who&#8217;ve confirmed that Padilla has a problem, but that seems like icing on this cake. If you drive drunk and kill your friend, and yet get behind the wheel drunk again a few months later, isn&#8217;t that the very definition of a drinking problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, looks like I need to clarify something. Andrew Johnson at his Defensive Indifference blog accused me of dropping an unsubstantiated allegation that Vicente Padilla has a drinking problem in my chat yesterday. I just want to point out that Padilla&#8217;s addiction to alcohol is no secret; he was driving drunk in Nicaragua two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}