{"id":1641,"date":"2016-02-10T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/clint-dempsey-doesnt-mind-taking-risks\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:32:12","slug":"clint-dempsey-doesnt-mind-taking-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/clint-dempsey-doesnt-mind-taking-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Dempsey doesn&#8217;t mind taking risks"},"content":{"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\u00a0Cleveland Plain Dealerprofiled Dempsey on the eve of the U.S. national team\u2019s international exhibition against Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2013\/05\/us_soccers_clint_dempsey_drive.html\">Read article<\/a><\/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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","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=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}