{"id":5512,"date":"2013-09-25T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ex-charger-paul-oliver-dies-at-29\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:58:00","slug":"ex-charger-paul-oliver-dies-at-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ex-charger-paul-oliver-dies-at-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Charger Paul Oliver dies at 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver died at the age of 29.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Union-Tribune, Oliver committed suicide. Unfortunately, the Chargers organization is no stranger to this type of tragedy. Legendary linebacker Junior Seau took his own life in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone in the Chargers family is sad today after hearing the news about Paul,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;He was part of our family for five years. At just 29 years old, he still had a lifetime in front of him. Right now all of our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this most difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers used a fourth-round pick in the 2007 supplemental draft to take Oliver, a Georgia product. He appeared in 57 NFL games, all with San Diego from 2008 to 2011, making 12 starts, and totaled 144 tackles, one sack and four interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver died at the age of 29. According to the Union-Tribune, Oliver committed suicide. Unfortunately, the Chargers organization is no stranger to this type of tragedy. Legendary linebacker Junior Seau took his own life in May 2012. &#8220;Everyone in the Chargers family is [&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-5512","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\/5512","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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}