{"id":7619,"date":"2013-12-18T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2013-12-18T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:57:44","slug":"redskins-london-fletcher-set-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/18\/redskins-london-fletcher-set-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins London Fletcher set to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher.jpg\" alt=\"londonfletcher\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/londonfletcher-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe NFL career of London Fletcher is set to come to a close at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher, 38, is ready to hang it up and wanted to have a chance to say his farewell&#8217;s to the Redskin faithful at the home finale against Dallas on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran is &#8220;99 percent certain&#8221; that he&#8217;s stepping away from the game but will speak to his wife before making it official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I\u2019ve accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in the National Football League,\u201d Fletcher said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/football-insider\/wp\/2013\/12\/18\/london-fletcher-says-hes-99-percent-certain-hell-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher has had a remarkably consistent career even if it was played in the shadows of Brian Urlacher and Ray Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not 28,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m 38. I understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins are ready to win one for Fletcher. They get to host the Dallas Cowboys with a chance to derail their divisional rivals playoff hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL career of London Fletcher is set to come to a close at the end of the season. Fletcher, 38, is ready to hang it up and wanted to have a chance to say his farewell&#8217;s to the Redskin faithful at the home finale against Dallas on Sunday. The veteran is &#8220;99 percent certain&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[232,216,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-london-fletcher","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","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=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}