{"id":3682,"date":"2013-03-09T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T02:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2013-03-09T02:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T02:17:35","slug":"ufc-fighter-rashad-evans-stands-up-for-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2013\/03\/09\/ufc-fighter-rashad-evans-stands-up-for-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fighter Rashad Evans Stands Up For Gay Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rashad-Evans.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rashad-Evans.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rashad-Evans Stands Up For Gay Rights \" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rashad-Evans.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rashad-Evans-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember I wrote about this topic a few years back(<a href=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/blog1\/?p=1361\">click here to read it<\/a>) trying to figure out how professional athletes would respond if they found out they had a gay teammate. Surprisingly, many athletes have been coming forward as of late and saying that they wouldn&#8217;t have an issue with an openly gay person in their sport. The most recent athlete to stand up for gay rights is UFC fighter Rashad Evans. Evans issued a statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsports.com\">outsports.com<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember I wrote about this topic a few years back(click here to read it) trying to figure out how professional athletes would respond if they found out they had a gay teammate. Surprisingly, many athletes have been coming forward as of late and saying that they wouldn&#8217;t have an issue with an openly gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}