{"id":684007,"date":"2018-08-30T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=684007"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:21:36","slug":"d-c-council-member-against-redskins-return-to-city-due-to-offensive-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=684007","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Council member against Redskins&#8217; return to city due to &#8216;offensive&#8217; name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Grosso, an at-large, independent D.C. Council member, released a statement Thursday saying he was against the idea of the Washington Redskins moving back into the city partly due to their nickname being &#8220;offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement was a reaction to Mayor Muriel Bowser&#8217;s call Wednesday for the team <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/29\/muriel-bowser-tells-redskins-bring-it-home-new-sta\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/30\/dc-council-member-against-redskins-return-city-due\/?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\/2018\/aug\/30\/dc-council-member-against-redskins-return-city-due\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"D.C. Council member against Redskins' return to city due to 'offensive' name\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Grosso, an at-large, independent D.C. Council member, released a statement Thursday saying he was against the idea of the Washington Redskins moving back into&#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-684007","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\/684007","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=684007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}