{"id":17730,"date":"2021-07-23T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17730"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:59:05","slug":"indians-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/indians-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/guardians_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17731\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/guardians_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/guardians_logo.jpg 719w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/guardians_logo-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a>After years of controversy and resistance, the Cleveland Indians announced today that they will officially be changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians starting with the 2022 season.\u00a0 The Indians name dates back to 1915, when the team, then known as the Naps, was looking to rebrand following the departure of Nap Lajoie.\u00a0\u00a0The Guardians name was inspired by\u00a0a pair of stone monuments,\u00a0the Guardians of Traffic, along the Hope Memorial Bridge a quarter of a mile away from Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians name and its Chief Wahoo logo have long been criticized for perpetuating Native American stereotypes. In 2015, team owner Paul Dolan acknowledged that there were critics, the team had no plans to change either its name or its logo.\u00a0\u00a0On January 29, 2018, however, Major League Baseball announced that Chief Wahoo would be removed from the Indians&#8217; uniforms as of the 2019 season, stating that the logo was no longer appropriate for on-field use.\u00a0 In completely unrelated news, Cleveland hosted the All Star game in 2019.\u00a0 Last July, following a similar move by the Washington Football team, the Indians\u00a0announced that they would &#8220;determine the best path forward&#8221; regarding the team&#8217;s name and, in December, the team announced they would drop the Indians name following the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of controversy and resistance, the Cleveland Indians announced today that they will officially be changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians starting with the 2022 season.\u00a0 The Indians name dates back to 1915, when the team, then known as the Naps, was looking to rebrand following the departure of Nap Lajoie.\u00a0\u00a0The Guardians name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5041,9691,9687,9689,115,2244,5678,9688,9690,6993,9692],"class_list":["post-17730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-chief-wahoo","tag-guardians","tag-guardians-of-traffic","tag-indians","tag-mlb","tag-nap-lajoie","tag-naps","tag-paul-dolan","tag-progressive-field","tag-washington-football-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17732,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions\/17732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}