{"id":152423,"date":"2020-06-13T21:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=152423"},"modified":"2020-06-13T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:48:56","slug":"grizzlies-ja-morant-requests-the-removal-of-a-confederate-statues-near-murray-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-ja-morant-requests-the-removal-of-a-confederate-statues-near-murray-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant requests the removal of a Confederate statues near Murray State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies playmaker Ja Morant wrote a letter asking for the removal of a Confederate statues near his alma mater Murray State.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dreamarlowe85\">Edward Alan Marlowe<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Murray State point guard and current Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant has weighed in on the Confederate statue in the downtown courtsquare of Murray, Ky. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77oaSfmcmq\">pic.twitter.com\/77oaSfmcmq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Alan Marlowe (@dreamarlowe85) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dreamarlowe85\/status\/1271844527729451010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morant: We can&#8217;t change the culture of racism unless we change the celebration of racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[6419,1745],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-152423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-ja-morant-en","tag-memphis-grizzlies-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152423"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=152423"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=152423"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=152423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}