{"id":22704,"date":"2018-11-21T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2018-11-21T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:22:36","slug":"us-soccer-star-would-take-knee-again-in-a-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22704","title":{"rendered":"US soccer star would take knee again &#8216;in a heartbeat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There was a time when Megan Rapinoe was booed by her own fans when representing the United States. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Those disgruntled supporters were voicing their disapproval at the American soccer star&#8217;s decision to kneel during the US national anthem in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/07\/sport\/colin-kaepernick-protest-taking-the-knee-nate-boyer-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s silent protest<\/a> against police brutality. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Californian was the first white professional athlete to show solidarity with Kaepernick, the first to do so on an international stage, helping turn a ripple of discontent into a wave which swept across the country; from San Francisco to Seattle, from the NFL to the National Women&#8217;s Soccer League, from elite athletes to college kids. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There was a time when Megan Rapinoe was booed by her own fans when representing the United States. Those disgruntled supporters were voicing their disapproval at the American soccer star&#8217;s decision to kneel during the US national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s silent protest against police brutality. The Californian was the first white professional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}