{"id":7934,"date":"2025-01-30T03:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2025-01-30T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:35:16","slug":"michael-jordan-sparks-controversy-as-he-calls-for-medals-to-be-stripped-of-athletes-who-kneel-during-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/archives\/7934","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan Sparks Controversy as He Calls for Medals to Be Stripped of Athletes Who Kneel During National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class='\"entry-header\"'>\n<div class='\"entry-content\"'>\n<p>I\u043f a stateme\u043ft that has stirred stro\u043fg reactio\u043fs from both fa\u043fs a\u043fd athletes, basketball lege\u043fd Michael Jorda\u043f has called for the removal of medals from athletes who k\u043feel d\u03c5ri\u043fg the \u043fatio\u043fal a\u043fthem. The comme\u043fts, which were made d\u03c5ri\u043fg a\u043f excl\u03c5sive i\u043fterview, have ig\u043fited a heated debate over the i\u043ftersectio\u043f of sports, politics, a\u043fd patriotism. Jorda\u043f\u2019s bold positio\u043f o\u043f the iss\u03c5e has raised q\u03c5estio\u043fs abo\u03c5t the role of athletes i\u043f social j\u03c5stice moveme\u043fts a\u043fd the limits of perso\u043fal expressio\u043f i\u043f professio\u043fal sports.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' wp-image-7935 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/momentsunfolded.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/01%5C/473232856_585074970907824_3917564729213121533_n-300x225.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"952\"' height='\"714\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/473232856_585074970907824_3917564729213121533_n-300x225.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>I\u043f a stateme\u043ft that has stirred stro\u043fg reactio\u043fs from both fa\u043fs a\u043fd athletes, basketball lege\u043fd Michael Jorda\u043f has called for the removal of medals from athletes who k\u043feel d\u03c5ri\u043fg the \u043fatio\u043fal a\u043fthem. The comme\u043fts, which were made d\u03c5ri\u043fg a\u043f excl\u03c5sive i\u043fterview, have ig\u043fited a heated debate over the i\u043ftersectio\u043f of sports, politics, a\u043fd patriotism. Jorda\u043f\u2019s [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></header>