{"id":331109,"date":"2017-10-19T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-stand-for-the-national-anthem-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:27:16","slug":"presstv-stand-for-the-national-anthem-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-stand-for-the-national-anthem-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Stand for the National Anthem: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump has called on the US National Football League (NFL)<\/strong> <strong>players again to \u201cstand for the National Anthem.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In a tweet on Wednesday, the US president upped the ante in his fight with the NFL players kneeling down during the national anthem to decry police brutality against minorities, particularly African Americans in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Trump urged the NFL to take action against those defying the tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cToo much talk, not enough action,\u201d he said. \u201cStand for the National Anthem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>\u2018No shift in NFL policy\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171019\/3dbe0189-17a7-41ea-99c3-fa2c7679c544.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This AFP file photo taken on September 23, 2017 shows Samaje Perine #32 and Chris Carter #55 of the Washington Redskins holding hands as they stand and kneel in unison during the national anthem before playing against the Oakland Raiders at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Earlier in the day, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that the league has not changed its policy to require players&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/19\/539100\/Stand-for-the-National-Anthem-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has called on the US National Football League (NFL) players again to \u201cstand for the National Anthem.\u201d In a tweet on Wednesday, the US president upped the ante in his fight with the NFL players kneeling down during the national anthem to decry police brutality against minorities, particularly African Americans in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}