{"id":490,"date":"2014-03-14T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=490"},"modified":"2014-03-14T23:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:15:22","slug":"lebron-james-to-pitch-obamacare-psa-to-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2014\/03\/14\/lebron-james-to-pitch-obamacare-psa-to-air\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James to pitch Obamacare, PSA to air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-491\" alt=\"lebronhealth\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/lebronhealth.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/lebronhealth.jpg 566w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/files\/2014\/03\/lebronhealth-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama has enlisted the help of Miami Heat superstar LeBron James as the March 31 deadline for the Affordable Care Act approaches.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron will appear in a third second ad which will be blasted across multiple networks during the NCAA&#8217;s March Madness programming.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Irkdx5iB0S0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s almost like car insurance,&#8221; James said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1991847-lebron-james-to-promote-affordable-care-act-at-president-obamas-request?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=programming-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bleacher Report<\/a>. &#8220;You want to put yourself in a position where\u2014you hope you never get into an accident\u2014but if you do, you want to be secure. And I think a lot of young adults and African-Americans as well are afraid because they are not even educated about it. And hopefully my voice, and hopefully the other people who&#8217;ve done it, can get them more knowledgeable about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for those who are critical of Obamacare?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, I can&#8217;t worry about that,&#8221; James said. &#8220;Especially who I am. I mean, I know that everything that I do is going to be bigger than what it should be or blown out of proportion. But what I believe in and the people that I support is what it&#8217;s all about. So I can sleep comfortably at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has enlisted the help of Miami Heat superstar LeBron James as the March 31 deadline for the Affordable Care Act approaches. LeBron will appear in a third second ad which will be blasted across multiple networks during the NCAA&#8217;s March Madness programming. &#8220;It&#8217;s almost like car insurance,&#8221; James said, via Bleacher Report. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-news","8":"tag-lebron-james","9":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}