{"id":969,"date":"2016-10-12T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=969"},"modified":"2016-10-12T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T01:13:54","slug":"colin-kaepernick-inks-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/colin-kaepernick-inks-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick Inks New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 12, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Call him embattled or call him inspirational, Colin Kaepernick has signed a new contract with the San Francisco Forty Niners NFL franchise and will be the starting quarterback for the 1 and 4 49ers\u00a0on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills (1pm EDT).<\/p>\n<p>Named yesterday as the new starting quarterback replacing under-performing\u00a0Blaine-Gabbert (1\/4), Kaepernick renegotiated his contract with the 49ers. \u00a0The new contract is a 2-year deal that replaces the\u00a0six-year, $114 million contract he signed in 2014. \u00a0It allows Kaepernick the option of becoming a free-agent next season. \u00a0It also voids the injury payment clause, an important financial consideration for the 49er&#8217;s franchise, considering Kaepernick had three surgeries during the off-season last year, on his thumb, shoulder and knee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">October 12, 2016 Call him embattled or call him inspirational, Colin Kaepernick has signed a new contract with the San Francisco Forty Niners NFL franchise and will be the starting quarterback for the 1 and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/colin-kaepernick-inks-new-contract\/\" title=\"Colin Kaepernick Inks New Contract\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,1,3],"tags":[537,532,535,533,534,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-other-news","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-usa","11":"tag-colin-kaepernick","12":"tag-doug-baldwin","13":"tag-national-anthem","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-owner-fire","16":"tag-nfl-protest","17":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}