{"id":1450,"date":"2013-08-05T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/05\/a-new-challenge-for-clint-dempsey\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:38:53","slug":"a-new-challenge-for-clint-dempsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-new-challenge-for-clint-dempsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7483\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/clint-dempsey-shutterstock-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7483 lazyload\" title=\"clint-dempsey-shutterstock-small\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/clint-dempsey-shutterstock-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"288\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 228px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 228\/288;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clint Dempsey (photo courtesy of shutterstock.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The big news coming out of the soccer world over the weekend was that former Furman soccer star Clint Dempsey was returning to Major League Soccer after a successful stint in Europe.\u00a0 But why would the 30-year-old Dempsey, playing for one of the better clubs in England and still well within his peak as a player, come back to America? Andy Glockner, a columnist with <em>SI.com<\/em>, suggests it was time for a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/soccer\/news\/20130802\/clint-dempsey-seattle-move\/?sct=sc_t12_a0\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news coming out of the soccer world over the weekend was that former Furman soccer star Clint Dempsey was returning to Major League Soccer after a successful stint in Europe. But why would the 30-year-old Dempsey, playing for one of the better clubs in England and still well within his peak as a player, come back to America? Andy Glockner, a columnist with\u00a0<em>SI.com<\/em>, suggests it was time for a new challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","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\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}