{"id":409415,"date":"2016-12-28T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=409415"},"modified":"2016-12-28T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:20:09","slug":"sports-social-issues-intertwined-in-2016-in-ways-unseen-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=409415","title":{"rendered":"Sports, social issues intertwined in 2016 in ways unseen in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go back almost 25 years. That&#8217;s when Charles Barkley was making an announcement for the public, one that stirred a discussion about the social responsibilities of an athlete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not a role model,&#8221; Barkley said in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The then-NBA superstar&#8217;s comment became a focus of conversation around the public &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/dec\/28\/sports-social-issues-intertwined-in-2016-in-ways-u\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/dec\/28\/sports-social-issues-intertwined-in-2016-in-ways-u\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sports, social issues intertwined in 2016 in ways unseen in decades\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go back almost 25 years. That&#8217;s when Charles Barkley was making an announcement for the public, one that stirred a discussion about the social responsibilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}