{"id":851989,"date":"2019-10-09T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=851989"},"modified":"2019-10-09T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:03:47","slug":"rihanna-on-rejecting-nfl-couldnt-be-a-sellout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=851989","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna on rejecting NFL: &#8216;Couldn&#8217;t be a sellout&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with Vogue, pop artist Rihanna <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/rihanna-cover-november-2019?verso=true\">said<\/a> she &#8220;absolutely&#8221; turned down a chance to play the Super Bowl halftime show as a way to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. <\/p>\n<p>Rihanna said she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t dare do that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Who gains from that?&#8221; she said. &#8220;Not my people. I &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/9\/rihanna-rejecting-nfl-couldnt-be-sellout\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/9\/rihanna-rejecting-nfl-couldnt-be-sellout\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Rihanna on rejecting NFL: 'Couldn't be a sellout'\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with Vogue, pop artist Rihanna said she &#8220;absolutely&#8221; turned down a chance to play the Super Bowl halftime show as a&#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-851989","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\/851989","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=851989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}