{"id":632,"date":"2013-08-16T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/?p=632"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:46:30","slug":"the-fatherhood-educational-institute-says-congratulations-to-our-honorary-president-ernie-mr-cub-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/the-fatherhood-educational-institute-says-congratulations-to-our-honorary-president-ernie-mr-cub-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fatherhood Educational Institute says Congratulations to our Honorary President Ernie \u201cMr. Cub\u201d Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_633\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-633\" class=\" wp-image-633   aligncenter\" alt=\"All For One, One For All- FEI President Emeritus Jeffery Leving, FEI Honorary President Ernie Banks and FEI Volunteers\" src=\"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JML-Ernie-Banks-and-FEI-volunteers.jpg\" width=\"487\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JML-Ernie-Banks-and-FEI-volunteers.jpg 870w, https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JML-Ernie-Banks-and-FEI-volunteers-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JML-Ernie-Banks-and-FEI-volunteers-176x120.jpg 176w, https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JML-Ernie-Banks-and-FEI-volunteers-58x39.jpg 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>All For One, One For All- FEI President Emeritus Jeffery Leving, FEI Honorary President Ernie Banks and FEI Volunteers<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Chicago Cub star and FEI Honorary President, Ernie Banks, is the latest recipient to receive the nation\u2019s highest honor given to a civilian, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/h4>\n<h4>On November 30, 2013 \u201cMr. Cub\u201d himself will join a prestigious group of individuals when President Obama presents him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This medal is an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.<\/h4>\n<h4>Ernie is still thought of as one of the nicest guys in Major League Baseball. He spent his entire 19-year career playing for the Chicago Cubs hitting .274 with 512 home runs and 1,636 RBI, making him one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game. On Tuesday, Banks talked to MLB Tonight about being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, \u201cIs this a great country or what?,\u201d Banks said. \u201cIt means a lot to me. It is just unbelievable. I didn\u2019t play in a World Series. I didn\u2019t play in any championship games. But this, to me, is my World Series. To accept this wonderful award from President Barack Obama has been a big, big thing in my life.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>And no one deserves it more than you, Congratulations Mr. Banks, FEI salutes you!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cub star and FEI Honorary President, Ernie Banks, is the latest recipient to receive the nation\u2019s highest honor given to a civilian, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On November 30, 2013 \u201cMr. Cub\u201d himself will join a prestigious group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}