{"id":872447,"date":"2019-11-12T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=872447"},"modified":"2019-11-12T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:58:10","slug":"hockey-commentator-don-cherry-who-called-canes-a-bunch-of-jerks-fired-for-rant-over-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=872447","title":{"rendered":"Hockey commentator Don Cherry, who called Canes &#8216;a bunch of jerks,&#8217; fired for rant over immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hockey-commentator-don-cherry-fired-for-rant-over-immigrants\/18759729\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2019\/11\/11\/18759866\/5dc9dbf5a9963-media_5aea79147222406bbe34dbf93a955b28-DMID1-5kslt33ly-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry_Controversies_Hockey_22389\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Don Cherry, Canada&#8217;s most polarizing, flamboyant and opinionated hockey commentator, was fired Monday for calling immigrants &#8220;you people&#8221; in a television rant in which he said new immigrants are not honoring the country&#8217;s fallen soldiers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hockey-commentator-don-cherry-fired-for-rant-over-immigrants\/18759729\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/hockey-commentator-don-cherry-fired-for-rant-over-immigrants\/18759729\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Hockey commentator Don Cherry, who called Canes 'a bunch of jerks,' fired for rant over immigrants\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Cherry, Canada&#8217;s most polarizing, flamboyant and opinionated hockey commentator, was fired Monday for calling immigrants &#8220;you people&#8221; in a television rant in which he&#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-872447","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\/872447","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=872447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}