{"id":625446,"date":"2018-05-08T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=625446"},"modified":"2018-05-08T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:55:33","slug":"john-skipper-who-abruptly-left-espn-has-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=625446","title":{"rendered":"John Skipper, Who Abruptly Left ESPN, Has a New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/john-skipper-who-abruptly-left-espn-has-a-new-job\/17539978\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2018\/03\/15\/17419061\/0a66e592-ea36-4a3a-a759-db81f035b073-DMID1-5ephjrm2n-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Cocaine and Extortion: Skipper Explains Why He Abruptly Left ESPN\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>John Skipper, the former president of ESPN, has been hired as the executive chairman of the sports media company Perform Group, according to a release from the company. Less than six months after his resignation from ESPN, Skipper will soon be competing against his former longtime employer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/john-skipper-who-abruptly-left-espn-has-a-new-job\/17539978\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/john-skipper-who-abruptly-left-espn-has-a-new-job\/17539978\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"John Skipper, Who Abruptly Left ESPN, Has a New Job\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Skipper, the former president of ESPN, has been hired as the executive chairman of the sports media company Perform Group, according to a release&#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-625446","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\/625446","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=625446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}