{"id":8104,"date":"2014-01-02T23:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8104"},"modified":"2014-01-02T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:09:45","slug":"brandon-jacobs-announces-retirement-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/02\/brandon-jacobs-announces-retirement-from-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Jacobs announces retirement from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" alt=\"brandonjacobs\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonjacobs.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonjacobs.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonjacobs-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonjacobs-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nBrandon Jacobs is hanging up the cleats.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs, 31, announced his retirement from football via twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had an amazing run and I appreciate all of the support from the fans through the good and the bad,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New York Giants are a great organization and I am proud to have been a part of it for so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5819\" alt=\"brandonjacobstd\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/brandonjacobstd.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacobs lasted nine seasons in the NFL, most of which was spent with the New York Giants. Plagued by knee injuries in recent seasons he underwent surgery recently.<\/p>\n<p>In his career Jacobs ran for 5,094 yards averaging 4.5 yards per carry. He recorded 60 rushing touchdowns, four of which came this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Jacobs is hanging up the cleats. Jacobs, 31, announced his retirement from football via twitter. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had an amazing run and I appreciate all of the support from the fans through the good and the bad,&#8221; &#8220;The New York Giants are a great organization and I am proud to have been a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[537,98,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-jacobs","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104","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=8104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8104"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}