{"id":1369,"date":"2014-01-09T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:49:07","slug":"ric-flair-has-received-death-threats-after-motivational-speech-to-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2014\/01\/09\/ric-flair-has-received-death-threats-after-motivational-speech-to-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ric Flair has received death threats after motivational speech to 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2014\/01\/ricflair.jpg\" alt=\"ricflair\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2014\/01\/ricflair.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2014\/01\/ricflair-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><br \/>\nRic Flair quipped \u201cWhat can I say? I\u2019ve always been a very good heel!\u201d while his publicist announced that the professional wrestler has received death threats from fans of the Carolina Panthers following a motivational speech to the San Francisco 49ers a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>The following statement was released on Facebook by his publicist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 49er pep talk, which instantly went viral, caused many Carolina fans to voice their feelings of anger and betrayal on social media \u2013 some even offering death threats to Flair. \u201cWe know fans are passionate about their teams, but some of the choice language we have been receiving is scaring off our interns,\u201d says Melinda Morris Zanoni, Flair\u2019s agent at Legacy Talent and Entertainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you missed the video you can watch it below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oviTQ-4hJTY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith recently said that Flair had burned his San Francisco bridge to the Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ric Flair quipped \u201cWhat can I say? I\u2019ve always been a very good heel!\u201d while his publicist announced that the professional wrestler has received death threats from fans of the Carolina Panthers following a motivational speech to the San Francisco 49ers a week ago. The following statement was released on Facebook by his publicist: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-wwe-topstory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}