{"id":2585,"date":"2013-07-18T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colts-te-saunders-gets-eight-game-ban\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:02:00","slug":"colts-te-saunders-gets-eight-game-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colts-te-saunders-gets-eight-game-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts TE Saunders gets eight-game ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The National Football League has suspended Indianapolis Colts tight end Weslye Saunders for the first eight games of the 2013 season for violating the league&#8217;s policy on performance enhancing substances.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the standard penalty for a second offense. Saunders was suspended for the first four games of the 2012 season for violating the PED policy.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders will be eligible to return to the Colts&#8217; active roster on Nov. 4 following the team&#8217;s Nov. 3 game against the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Saunders played in 11 games last season. He played in 16 contests for the Steelers in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The National Football League has suspended Indianapolis Colts tight end Weslye Saunders for the first eight games of the 2013 season for violating the league&#8217;s policy on performance enhancing substances. It&#8217;s the standard penalty for a second offense. Saunders was suspended for the first four games of the 2012 [&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":[155,154,153],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-colts","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","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=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}