{"id":756,"date":"2004-03-11T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/the_heroic_receiver\/"},"modified":"2004-03-11T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T13:32:45","slug":"the_heroic_receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/the_heroic_receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heroic Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given the pampered culture of professional sports, I guess it shouldn’t be any surprise that athletes spout off like this<\/a>. Ladies and gentlemen, Terrel Owens–great warrior for American rights:<\/p>\n

“So that there is no misunderstanding, regardless of what happens with the grievance, under the present circumstances I do not see myself playing for the Ravens,” Owens said. “I can assure everyone that I will continue to keep fighting for my right to play for the team of my choice even after the grievance. At the end of this process, I simply want to be able to exercise my right to play for a team of my choosing under a deal that is fair to me and my family.”
\nResponding to a question on his Web site asking why he doesn’t “just play the cards you were dealt?” Owens responded, “Sometimes you have to do what’s in your heart to do, just can’t settle for whatever. Rosa Parks didn’t! You have to stand up for your rights and that’s what I plan to do, win or lose!” (Owen’s chatroom shorthand has been edited for clarity.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course! Terrell Owens–in fighting a trade to the Ravens–is just like a modern day Rosa Parks. Let’s get out a postage stamp for him already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the pampered culture of professional sports, I guess it shouldn’t be any surprise that athletes spout off like this. Ladies and gentlemen, Terrel Owens–great warrior for American rights: “So that there is no misunderstanding, regardless of what happens with the grievance, under the present circumstances I do not see myself playing for the Ravens,” […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}