{"id":10359,"date":"2014-05-18T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2014-05-18T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T14:46:04","slug":"saints-sign-paralyzed-former-tulane-safety-devon-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/18\/saints-sign-paralyzed-former-tulane-safety-devon-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints sign paralyzed former Tulane safety Devon Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10360\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/devonwalker.jpg\" alt=\"devonwalker\" width=\"620\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/devonwalker.jpg 620w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/devonwalker-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/05\/devonwalker-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans Saints signed Devon Walker formerly of Tulane on Saturday. Walker\u00a0<span style=\"color: #363636;\">was paralyzed from the neck down in September 2012 while playing for the Green Wave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #363636;\">&#8220;For me, this is one of my dreams come true,&#8221; Walker said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/saints\/index.ssf\/2014\/05\/new_orleans_saints_sign_former_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NOLA<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a Saint since before I was walking. Just to be a part of the team and be around the players is more than I could have hoped for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QR95Bieut7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Walker graduated\u00a0s on Saturday morning at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome receiving\u00a0his diploma in cell and molecular biology. Later his family took him to the Saints facility where Sean Payton presented him with a contract from general manager Mickey Loomis.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is just awesome,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;This is the best moment. This is a happy graduation right now. Sean is doing a great job with him. He didn&#8217;t know anything about it until a couple of minutes ago. It was a great day. This kid deserves it all. He&#8217;s very inspirational. I love this kid. The Saints have given him a great opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints signed Devon Walker formerly of Tulane on Saturday. Walker\u00a0was paralyzed from the neck down in September 2012 while playing for the Green Wave. &#8220;For me, this is one of my dreams come true,&#8221; Walker said, via NOLA. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a Saint since before I was walking. Just to be a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[757,38,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-devon-walker","9":"tag-new-orleans-saints","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10363,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions\/10363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}