{"id":178,"date":"2009-10-01T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:10:04","slug":"breast-cancer-awareness-and-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/breast-cancer-awareness-and-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Awareness and the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastcancer.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-179\" title=\"pink_ribbon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pink_ribbon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pink_ribbon.png 250w, http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pink_ribbon-185x300.png 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a>This week I\u2019ve read and heard from writers and commentators some variation on &#8220;real men don\u2019t wear pink&#8221; in reaction to NFL players who will be wearing pink in support of breast cancer awareness this month. To be fair, they also commended the NFL and players for doing it. I\u2019ve never been accused of going out too much, but do any of these people get out, watch TV or look at magazines? I see men wearing dress shirts and ties that either contain pink or are all pink. Even on air people at ESPN will have some pink in their shirts or ties at times. I know I\u2019ve seen Tom Brady wearing stuff with pink in it during post game press conferences. Now it\u2019s some big deal for players to wear pink cleats or gloves. I think we\u2019re quite a bit beyond &#8220;real men don\u2019t wear pink&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I\u2019ve read and heard from writers and commentators some variation on &#8220;real men don\u2019t wear pink&#8221; in reaction to NFL players who will be wearing pink in support of breast cancer awareness this month. To be fair, they also commended the NFL and players for doing it. I\u2019ve never been accused of going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,7],"tags":[138,91,139],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-news","category-sports","tag-breast-cancer","tag-nfl","tag-pink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}