{"id":1115,"date":"2013-03-12T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lions-ink-wr-iannuzzi-to-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-03-12T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:56:00","slug":"lions-ink-wr-iannuzzi-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lions-ink-wr-iannuzzi-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions ink WR Iannuzzi to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The British Columbia Lions inked wideout Marco Iannuzzi to a contract extension on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marco has shown steady improvement in the past two years and we expect him to be an important piece of our offense in the future,&#8221; said Lions general manager Wally Buono.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard product and Calgary native posted career highs of 30 receptions, 353 yards and five touchdowns in 2012, his sophomore campaign. In two CFL seasons, the 25-year-old has recorded 38 catches for 418 yards and five scores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marco is gifted receiver who works extremely hard,&#8221; said Lions head coach Mike Benevides. &#8220;He&#8217;s part of a solid core of young receivers that we have a lot of confidence in and I&#8217;m very pleased to have him with us moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) &#8211; The British Columbia Lions inked wideout Marco Iannuzzi to a contract extension on Tuesday. &#8220;Marco has shown steady improvement in the past two years and we expect him to be an important piece of our offense in the future,&#8221; said Lions general manager Wally Buono. The Harvard product and Calgary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}