{"id":1368,"date":"2013-05-29T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/29\/clint-dempsey-willing-to-take-risks\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:58:46","slug":"clint-dempsey-willing-to-take-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/clint-dempsey-willing-to-take-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Dempsey willing to take risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6994\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/clint-dempsey-cleveland-article.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6994\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6994 lazyload\" title=\"clint-dempsey-cleveland-article\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/clint-dempsey-cleveland-article.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"324\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 274px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 274\/324;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clint Dempsey (right) played at Furman in the early 2000s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. soccer star Clint Dempsey never has been afraid to test the limits of his talents or Texas-sized ambitions. The former Furman soccer star wasn\u2019t satisfied with winning MLS Rookie-of-the-Year honors or reaching the English Premier League. It&#8217;s that attitude and approach, along with the ability to deliver big goals, that helped persuade U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann to give Dempsey the captain&#8217;s arm band for the past two World Cup qualifiers. The <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer <\/em>profiled Dempsey on the eve of the U.S. national team\u2019s international exhibition against Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2013\/05\/us_soccers_clint_dempsey_drive.html\">Read article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. soccer star Clint Dempsey never has been afraid to test the limits of his talents or Texas-sized ambitions. The former Furman soccer star wasn\u2019t satisfied with winning MLS Rookie-of-the-Year honors or reaching the English Premier League. It&#8217;s that attitude and approach, along with the ability to deliver big goals, that helped persuade U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann to give Dempsey the captain&#8217;s arm band for the past two World Cup qualifiers. The\u00a0<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer <\/em>profiled Dempsey on the eve of the U.S. national team\u2019s international exhibition against Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}