{"id":5420,"date":"2013-09-22T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:40:00","slug":"49ers-suspend-aldon-smith-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/22\/49ers-suspend-aldon-smith-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers suspend Aldon Smith indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5338\" alt=\"aldonsmith\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/aldonsmith.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/aldonsmith.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/aldonsmith-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/aldonsmith-50x36.jpg 50w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/aldonsmith-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco 49ers have suspended Aldon Smith. While Smith has vowed to fix things he will not play in Thursday&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Rams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>According to Jed York, Aldon Smith will not play on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/49ers\/statuses\/381927378290606081\">September 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being arrested early Friday morning, Smith was allowed to play in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst off, I wanted to apologize to the team, the organization, my family, everybody that I let down.\u201d Smith said. \u201cI also wanted to let it be known that this is a problem. It\u2019s something I will get fixed, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that this never happens again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco CEO Jed York later announced that the 49ers would suspend Smith &#8220;indefinitely&#8221; and that there was &#8220;no timetable&#8221; for his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers have suspended Aldon Smith. While Smith has vowed to fix things he will not play in Thursday&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Rams. According to Jed York, Aldon Smith will not play on Thursday. \u2014 San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) September 22, 2013 &nbsp; Despite being arrested early Friday morning, Smith was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[404,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aldon-smith","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}