{"id":8077,"date":"2016-08-28T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/28\/colin-kaepernick-is-just-the-latest-athlete-to-make-a-strong-political-statement\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T21:10:23","slug":"colin-kaepernick-is-just-the-latest-athlete-to-make-a-strong-political-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/colin-kaepernick-is-just-the-latest-athlete-to-make-a-strong-political-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick Is Just The Latest Athlete To Make A Strong Political Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly retired <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Bill Rhoden discusses NFL player Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s refusal to stand during the national anthem and past political activism by athletes.<\/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:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/28\/491726876\/colin-kaepernick-is-just-the-latest-athlete-to-make-a-strong-political-statement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Colin Kaepernick Is Just The Latest Athlete To Make A Strong Political Statement\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/28\/491726876\/colin-kaepernick-is-just-the-latest-athlete-to-make-a-strong-political-statement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly retired <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Bill Rhoden discusses NFL player Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s refusal to stand during the national anthem and past political activism by athletes.<\/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:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(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-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","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=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}