{"id":3525,"date":"2009-01-13T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2011-12-25T00:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:57:20","slug":"reconsidering-plaxico-burress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"Reconsidering Plaxico Burress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants lost its first play off game.  It won only 1 game out of 6 since Plaxico shot himself in the leg.  It&#8217;s noble to set a strict rule or example, but I thought the quick decision made by Giants was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2644\">too harsh<\/a> .  He was not even convicted, doesn&#8217;t the law say you&#8217;re innocent till proven guilt?  Why shouldn&#8217;t he be given the same opportunity?  Drunk drivers and drug dealers all get to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>When can the government or SEC learn from the sporting leagues, that rules do apply and that accountability means something.  I don&#8217;t think that a coach or a player who fails to perform and they would be showing the door with a $250m bonus or severance package.  Same goes to the government officials, look at Hillary who ran for higher office for 1 or 2 years while still being paid as NY senator.  She wasn&#8217;t doing her job, why should she still have that job when she failed to win the nomination?  Shouldn&#8217;t they resign from the post to run?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants lost its first play off game. It won only 1 game out of 6 since Plaxico shot himself in the leg. It&#8217;s noble to set a strict rule or example, but I thought the quick decision made by Giants was too harsh . He was not even convicted, doesn&#8217;t the law say you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}