{"id":52185,"date":"2015-10-30T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u_of_minneosta_football_coach_jerry_kill_abruptly_retires_citing_struggles_\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:29:59","slug":"u_of_minneosta_football_coach_jerry_kill_abruptly_retires_citing_struggles_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52185","title":{"rendered":"U of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill abruptly retires, citing struggles with epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choking back tears, Kill, 54, announced Wednesday morning that he was retiring immediately, shocking fans across the state as he explained that he could no longer coach the way he wants because of his health issues.<\/p>\n<p>With his wife, Rebecca, tearfully watching near the side of a university stage, Kill told a stunned audience that his seizures had returned, he hadn\u2019t slept more than three hours a night in weeks, he had quit taking some of his medication and that he doesn\u2019t \u201chave any more energy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the way I wanted to go out,\u201d\u009d Kill said. \u201cBut you all know about the struggles, and I did my best to change. But some of those struggles have returned, and I don\u2019t want to cheat the game.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/jerry-kill-retires-as-u-football-coach-due-to-health\/337923342\">Read it all<\/a> from the Star-Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choking back tears, Kill, 54, announced Wednesday morning that he was retiring immediately, shocking fans across the state as he explained that he could no longer coach the way he wants because of his health issues. With his wife, Rebecca,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52185\">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":[39,50,209,175,111,168,104,98,128,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-sports","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185","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=52185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}