{"id":21087,"date":"2019-09-14T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/09\/14\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies\/"},"modified":"2019-09-14T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:34:08","slug":"not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies\/","title":{"rendered":"Not My Job: We Quiz WNBA Star Tina Charles, A Former UConn Husky, On Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760524218\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/09\/13\/ap_18225040365187_custom-d9dd15a1602629385113a4127b3c9e157faf48fc-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"New York Liberty's Tina Charles plays in a WNBA basketball game on Aug. 12, 2018 in New York.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/09\/13\/ap_18225040365187_custom-d9dd15a1602629385113a4127b3c9e157faf48fc-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        Gregory Payan\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tina Charles has won two Olympic golds, the WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP awards, and now is the starting center for the New York Liberty. <\/p>\n<p>As a University of Connecticut alum, she&#8217;s a proud Husky, so we&#8217;ll ask her three questions about actual huskies \u2014 you know, the dogs that pull sleds through the snow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the audio link above to find out how she does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760524218\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Not My Job: We Quiz WNBA Star Tina Charles, A Former UConn Husky, On Huskies\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760524218\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/14\/760524218\/not-my-job-we-quiz-wnba-star-tina-charles-a-former-uconn-husky-on-huskies?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/09\/13\/ap_18225040365187_custom-d9dd15a1602629385113a4127b3c9e157faf48fc-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"New York Liberty's Tina Charles plays in a WNBA basketball game on Aug. 12, 2018 in New York.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/09\/13\/ap_18225040365187_custom-d9dd15a1602629385113a4127b3c9e157faf48fc-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        Gregory Payan\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tina Charles has won two Olympic golds, the WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP awards, and now is the starting center for the New York Liberty. <\/p>\n<p>As a University of Connecticut alum, she&#8217;s a proud Husky, so we&#8217;ll ask her three questions about actual huskies \u2014 you know, the dogs that pull sleds through the snow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the audio link above to find out how she does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}