{"id":6607,"date":"2020-05-27T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:28:46","slug":"returning-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6607","title":{"rendered":"Returning Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"95o9r\" data-offset-key=\"f4con-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f4con-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f4con-0-0\">I&#8217;m hoping the NFL hires Kaepernick on as a Director of Community Relations or Social Progress or something. I don&#8217;t follow football anymore &#8230; but he last played in 2016 or 2017. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s physically active, but he hasn&#8217;t been playing pro football for three years. He&#8217;s at a huge disadvantage coming back into the league now; and, external factors aside, he probably doesn&#8217;t command multi-year multi-million dollar contracts. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"95o9r\" data-offset-key=\"aqagb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"aqagb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"aqagb-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"95o9r\" data-offset-key=\"6kni4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6kni4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6kni4-0-0\">But the NFL obviously could use help ensuring the league is advocating for beneficial social changes instead of penalizing players for respectful protest (they&#8217;ve got a physical activity campaign for kids, so it&#8217;s not like they don&#8217;t engage in tangentially related causes). Kaepernick obviously has the bravery and conviction to speak up even if the topic isn&#8217;t wildly popular yet.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping the NFL hires Kaepernick on as a Director of Community Relations or Social Progress or something. I don&#8217;t follow football anymore &#8230; but he last played in 2016 or 2017. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s physically active, but he hasn&#8217;t been playing pro football for three years. He&#8217;s at a huge disadvantage coming back into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}