{"id":1097,"date":"2015-06-29T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2015-06-29T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:02:45","slug":"michael-sam-footballer-or-rockette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/michael-sam-footballer-or-rockette\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sam &#8211; Footballer or Rockette?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time you read this, <strong>Michael Sam <\/strong>should be back up in Canada singing &#8220;Alouette, gentille alouette!&#8221;\u00a0 About a week ago, Sam&#8217;s football career all but flatlined as he abruptly left training camp with the <em>Montreal Alouettes <\/em>for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;.\u00a0 He was suspended and local reporters mused that he wouldn&#8217;t be returning.\u00a0 The team&#8217;s general manager was perplexed.\u00a0 &#8220;He wanted to go home, and that&#8217;s what he did.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why.\u00a0 When a guy wants to go home, they go home.\u00a0 He had some personal things to take care of.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he returns.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised he left.\u00a0 I was very surprised.\u00a0 If he doesn&#8217;t come back, I would think football&#8217;s over for him.&#8221;\u00a0 Rumors circulated that he wasn&#8217;t doing well in practice and had trouble with his teammates.\u00a0 While we still don&#8217;t know anything about his mysterious departure, Sam was expected to return to practice on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time you read this, Michael Sam should be back up in Canada singing &#8220;Alouette, gentille alouette!&#8221;\u00a0 About a week ago, Sam&#8217;s football career all but flatlined as he abruptly left training camp with the Montreal Alouettes for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;.\u00a0 He was suspended and local reporters mused that he wouldn&#8217;t be returning.\u00a0 The team&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}