{"id":55478,"date":"2001-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/969a661c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"969a662d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/969a662d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"McGwire sues to stop phony bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) &#8211; Seventy homers is one thing, but $70 bills are quite another for home run king Mark McGwire.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals slugger filed suit in St. Louis Circuit Court on Thursday, seeking to stop distribution of phony $70 bills that feature his picture.<\/p>\n<p>The bills are meant to recognize his record of 70 home runs in the 1998 season.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also seeks more than $25,000 in damages from the alleged producer, Christopher Morris of Hardy, Ark. Morris did not return phone calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>McGwire sued Morris after he allegedly missed a Christmas deadline to stop distributing the phony bills. McGwire had agreed earlier not to sue Morris in exchange for an &#8220;appropriate&#8221; donation to the Cardinals&#8217; charitable organization, Cardinals Care.<\/p>\n<p>McGwire&#8217;s attorney Michael Kahn said that the bills are an unauthorized commercial exploitation of McGwire&#8217;s image and that their distribution &#8220;runs afoul of federal regulations and law on counterfeit U.S. currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy homers is one thing, but $70 bills are quite another for home run king Mark McGwire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}