{"id":29924,"date":"2011-12-19T01:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chicago_tribune_religious_devotion_prevalent_in_nfl\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T01:33:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:33:51","slug":"chicago_tribune_religious_devotion_prevalent_in_nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29924","title":{"rendered":"(Chicago Tribune) Religious devotion prevalent in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, [Devin] Hester&#8217;s mentor, is perplexed by the debate regarding Tebow&#8217;s ongoing testimony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tebow is taking a lot of criticism not just because of his faith. He&#8217;s taking criticism because he&#8217;s abnormal,&#8221; said Sanders, now an analyst for the NFL Network. &#8220;The things he&#8217;s doing and the success he&#8217;s having is not normal, and people have a hard time buying into what they haven&#8217;t seen. Then to top it all off, he exercises his faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, a young, successful guy or woman, regardless of their ethnicity, who exercises what they believe in and what they truly stand for, no matter what it is, it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/12\/11\/2077236\/religious-devotion-prevalent-in.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, [Devin] Hester&#8217;s mentor, is perplexed by the debate regarding Tebow&#8217;s ongoing testimony. &#8220;Tebow is taking a lot of criticism not just because of his faith. He&#8217;s taking criticism because he&#8217;s abnormal,&#8221; said Sanders, now an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29924\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,125,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-men","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}