{"id":1912,"date":"2014-08-21T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:02:34","slug":"tim-howard-to-take-break-from-usmnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/08\/21\/tim-howard-to-take-break-from-usmnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Howard to take break from USMNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/08\/timhoward.jpg\" alt=\"timhoward\" width=\"720\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/08\/timhoward.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/08\/timhoward-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><br \/>\nTim Howard, the United Stats goalkeeper who rose to fame during the World Cup inspiring memes, has chosen to take a one year break for the National Men&#8217;s Team.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Howard will continue to play for Everton in the English Premier League and attempt to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having played overseas for the last 12 years and missing out on spending time with my family, making this commitment to my family is very important at this time,&#8221; Howard said in a statement released by U.S. Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids. It&#8217;s the right decision at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jurgen has always been up front with all the players in saying you have to earn your place, which is something I agree with, so I look forward to coming back next fall and competing for a spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Howard, the United Stats goalkeeper who rose to fame during the World Cup inspiring memes, has chosen to take a one year break for the National Men&#8217;s Team. The 35-year-old Howard will continue to play for Everton in the English Premier League and attempt to spend more time with his family. &#8220;Having played overseas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,129],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-tim-howard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}