{"id":23,"date":"2012-10-02T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:28:47","slug":"lolo-jones-accepts-challage-to-race-by-eric-legrand-didnt-know-hes-quadriplegic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2012\/10\/02\/lolo-jones-accepts-challage-to-race-by-eric-legrand-didnt-know-hes-quadriplegic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lolo Jones accepts challenge to race by Eric LeGrand, didn&#8217;t know he&#8217;s quadriplegic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolo-jones-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27\" title=\"lolo-jones-lg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolo-jones-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolo-jones-lg.jpg 467w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolo-jones-lg-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lolo Jones says she was just responding to a challenge to a race and it seems that is true. However, you can not help but laugh a bit about her reaction when she finds out that the man who challenged her, former NFL player Eric LeGrand, is now a quadriplegic.<\/p>\n<p>LeGrand suffered a severe spine injury in October of 2010 when playing for Rutgers. He later signed a ceremonious contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Greg Schiano was his head coach at Rutgers and was the Buccaneers coach who signed him.<\/p>\n<p>His twitter profile says he is &#8220;bELieve 52, Defensive Tackle for Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Out here trying to inspire the world.. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exchange can be seen below but I&#8217;m guessing the race will not happen now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonestwitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24 aligncenter\" title=\"lolojonestwitter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonestwitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonestwitter.jpg 456w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonestwitter-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lolo Jones says she was just responding to a challenge to a race and it seems that is true. However, you can not help but laugh a bit about her reaction when she finds out that the man who challenged her, former NFL player Eric LeGrand, is now a quadriplegic. LeGrand suffered a severe spine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-23","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-back-page-featured","8":"tag-lolo-jones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}