{"id":22791,"date":"2014-08-29T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-lb-smith-suspended-9-games\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:26:00","slug":"49ers-lb-smith-suspended-9-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-lb-smith-suspended-9-games\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers LB Smith suspended 9 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was suspended nine games without pay on Friday for violating the NFL&#8217;s Policy and Program for Substance of Abuse and the league&#8217;s Personal Conduct Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Smith can return in Week 11 against the New York Giants, as the 49ers have a Week 8 bye.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Smith was sentenced to 11 days in jail and three years&#8217; probation on weapons and DUI charges, leading to this most recent suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Smith voluntarily took a leave of absence from the 49ers last year to seek help for a substance abuse problem, missing five games.<\/p>\n<p>He has been one of the NFL&#8217;s elite pass rushers since being drafted No. 7 overall by the 49ers in 2011. He has 42 sacks in just three seasons, but has had numerous run-ins with the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was suspended nine games without pay on Friday for violating the NFL&#8217;s Policy and Program for Substance of Abuse and the league&#8217;s Personal Conduct Policy. Smith can return in Week 11 against the New York Giants, as the 49ers have a Week 8 bye. [&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":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-22791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791","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=22791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}