{"id":240,"date":"2013-03-07T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-release-takeo-spikes\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T11:10:00","slug":"chargers-release-takeo-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/chargers-release-takeo-spikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers release Takeo Spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Diego Chargers have released linebacker Takeo Spikes.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old veteran spent the past two seasons with San Diego and last year notched 78 tackles in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Takeo is a true professional and a class act,&#8221; said Chargers general manager Tom Telesco. &#8220;We&#8217;re grateful for his many contributions to the Chargers organization, both on and off the field, and wish him nothing but the best in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spikes began his career with Cincinnati in 1998, then joined Buffalo in 2003 and played for Philadelphia in 2007 before spending three seasons in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In 219 NFL games, all but four as a starter, Spikes has 1,737 career tackles with 29 sacks and 19 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The San Diego Chargers have released linebacker Takeo Spikes. The 36-year-old veteran spent the past two seasons with San Diego and last year notched 78 tackles in 16 games. &#8220;Takeo is a true professional and a class act,&#8221; said Chargers general manager Tom Telesco. &#8220;We&#8217;re grateful for his many [&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":[86,85,84],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-chargers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}