{"id":19177,"date":"2014-05-26T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-name-gm-bruce-allen-president\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T18:07:00","slug":"redskins-name-gm-bruce-allen-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/redskins-name-gm-bruce-allen-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins name GM Bruce Allen president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins named Bruce Allen as team president on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Allen will continue to be general manager of the Redskins and serve in both capacities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the world of Bruce Allen and giving him both titles is appropriate,&#8221; said owner Dan Snyder.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was hired as executive vice president and general manager of the Redskins on Dec. 17, 2009. He was also general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2004-08.<\/p>\n<p>He also as a senior executive under Al Davis with the Oakland Raiders from 1996-2003.<\/p>\n<p>Allen issued a response last week to defend the Redskins name in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after 50 U.S. senators demanded that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell change the team name, calling it racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Redskins named Bruce Allen as team president on Monday. Allen will continue to be general manager of the Redskins and serve in both capacities. &#8220;I think the world of Bruce Allen and giving him both titles is appropriate,&#8221; said owner Dan Snyder. Allen was hired as executive vice president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-19177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-redskins","tag-washington","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177","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=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}