{"id":9954,"date":"2021-11-03T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=9954"},"modified":"2021-11-03T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:20:38","slug":"sen-ossoff-leads-georgia-congressional-delegation-in-honoring-world-series-champion-atlanta-braves","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-leads-georgia-congressional-delegation-in-honoring-world-series-champion-atlanta-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Leads Georgia Congressional Delegation in Honoring World Series Champion Atlanta Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today led the entire Georgia Congressional delegation in congratulating the Atlanta Braves for winning the 2021 Major League Baseball World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff introduced a U.S. Senate resolution to honor the Braves, who defeated the Houston Astros last night to win the World Series four games to two, their first World Series title since 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resolution also honors Braves legend Hank Aaron, who passed away earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember exactly where I was in 1995 when the Braves last won the World Series. Likewise, I\u2019ll never forget where I was last night as our team brought home another world championship. Congratulations to the players and entire organization. Georgia is proud,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sen. Ossoff.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reps. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11) and Nikema Williams (D-GA-05) introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resolution was co-sponsored by the rest of the Georgia Congressional Delegation: Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), Sanford Bishop (D-GA-02), Drew Ferguson (R-GA-03), Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), Lucy McBath (GA-06), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA-07), Austin Scott (R-GA-08), Andrew Clyde (R-GA-09), Jody Hice (R-GA-10), Rick Allen (R-GA-12), David Scott (D-GA-13), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ELL21089.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today led the entire Georgia Congressional delegation in congratulating the Atlanta Braves for winning the 2021 Major League Baseball World Series. Sen. Ossoff introduced a U.S. Senate resolution to honor the Braves, who defeated the Houston Astros last night to win the World Series four games to two, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9954","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9954\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}