{"id":9861,"date":"2014-04-11T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T02:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T02:50:57","slug":"eric-weems-agrees-to-paycut-from-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/11\/eric-weems-agrees-to-paycut-from-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Weems agrees to paycut from Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9862\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/ericweems.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/ericweems.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/ericweems-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/ericweems-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago Bears will keep veteran return man Eric Weems around after he agreed to a paycut.<\/p>\n<p>Weems has agreed to reduce his base salary from $1 million to the i year veteran minimum of $730,000. In short Weems opted to remain with the Bears rather than test the open market.<\/p>\n<p>Set to be 29 before camp starts, the Bears figure to use Weems only in the return game. He could be an option to replace Devin Hester.<\/p>\n<p>Weems earned $915,000 last year and $2.225 million in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears will keep veteran return man Eric Weems around after he agreed to a paycut. Weems has agreed to reduce his base salary from $1 million to the i year veteran minimum of $730,000. In short Weems opted to remain with the Bears rather than test the open market. Set to be 29 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,712,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-eric-weems","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9863,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/9863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}