{"id":2844,"date":"2013-07-25T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sedrick-ellis-informs-bears-that-hes-retiring\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:59:00","slug":"sedrick-ellis-informs-bears-that-hes-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/sedrick-ellis-informs-bears-that-hes-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedrick Ellis informs Bears that he&#8217;s retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bourbonnais, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; Chicago Bears defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis did not report to training camp. In fact, Ellis won&#8217;t be playing professional football anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears announced on Thursday that Ellis has advised the club of his intention to retire from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis had signed a one-year contract with Chicago in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was selected seventh overall by the Saints in 2008. In five NFL seasons with New Orleans, Ellis had 173 tackles, 12 1\/2 sacks and two forced fumbles in 70 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourbonnais, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; Chicago Bears defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis did not report to training camp. In fact, Ellis won&#8217;t be playing professional football anymore. The Bears announced on Thursday that Ellis has advised the club of his intention to retire from the NFL. Ellis had signed a one-year contract with Chicago in June. [&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":[157,30,156],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","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=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}