{"id":989623,"date":"2020-06-10T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=989623"},"modified":"2020-06-10T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:40:00","slug":"backlash-to-george-floyd-tweet-forces-out-crossfit-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=989623","title":{"rendered":"Backlash to George Floyd tweet forces out CrossFit founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and led to affiliated gyms and Reebok cutting ties with the exercise brand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/ap-online\/2020\/06\/10\/crossfit-ceo-resigns-over-insensitive-george-floyd-tweet\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/ap-online\/2020\/06\/10\/crossfit-ceo-resigns-over-insensitive-george-floyd-tweet\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Backlash to George Floyd tweet forces out CrossFit founder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spectrum Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and led to affiliated gyms and Reebok cutting&#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-989623","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\/989623","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=989623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}