{"id":1137,"date":"2014-10-05T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-10-05T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:57:45","slug":"michael-phelps-announces-that-he-is-going-to-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/10\/05\/michael-phelps-announces-that-he-is-going-to-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps announces that he is going to rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/10\/michaelphelps.jpg\" alt=\"michaelphelps\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/10\/michaelphelps.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/10\/michaelphelps-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps was charged with DUI for the second time when he was arrested in Maryland on Tuesday. Phelps has won 22 Olympic swimming medals &#8211; including 18 golds &#8211; but has had trouble with alcohol which he ackowleged on twitter Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Phelps tweeted that he was headed to rehab expressing disappointment with himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The past few days have been extremely difficult. I recognize that this is not my first lapse in judgment, and I am extremely disappointed with myself. I\u2019m going to take some time away to attend a program that will provide the help I need to better understand myself. Swimming is a major part of my life, but right now I need to focus my attention on me as an individual, and do the necessary work to learn from this experience and make better decisions in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently no sponsors of Phelps have opted to leave the swimmer who came out of retirement in April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Phelps was charged with DUI for the second time when he was arrested in Maryland on Tuesday. Phelps has won 22 Olympic swimming medals &#8211; including 18 golds &#8211; but has had trouble with alcohol which he ackowleged on twitter Sunday morning. Phelps tweeted that he was headed to rehab expressing disappointment with himself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,96],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-1137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-phelps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}