{"id":185709,"date":"2014-08-31T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/31\/bummer-4\/"},"modified":"2014-08-31T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:17:00","slug":"bummer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/31\/bummer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rams just <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/11431047\/michael-sam-cut-st-louis-rams\">cut Michael Sam<\/a>.  He performed well in the preseason, but the Rams simply had too many defensive linemen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The St. Louis Rams have released defensive end Michael Sam, the first openly gay player selected in the NFL draft.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sam, a seventh-round draft choice, had been battling undrafted rookie Ethan Westbrooks for a final roster spot. Westbrooks was one of nine defensive linemen to make the team.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sam thanked the Rams for the opportunity in a series of tweets after the team made the announcement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still expect him to play for <b>some<\/b> team this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rams just cut Michael Sam. He performed well in the preseason, but the Rams simply had too many defensive linemen: The St. Louis Rams have released defensive end Michael Sam, the first openly gay player selected in the NFL draft.Sam, a seventh-round draft choice, had been battling undrafted rookie Ethan Westbrooks for a final &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}