{"id":733,"date":"2013-09-11T21:43:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=733"},"modified":"2013-09-11T21:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:43:29","slug":"jim-ross-retires-from-wwe-after-20-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2013\/09\/11\/jim-ross-retires-from-wwe-after-20-years-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ross retires from WWE after 20 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-734\" alt=\"jimross\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2013\/09\/jimross.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2013\/09\/jimross.jpg 624w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2013\/09\/jimross-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2013\/09\/jimross-210x130.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Ross is retiring from the WWE. On Wednesday the commentator announced that he was retiring from the WWE after 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ross was the unofficial voice the &#8220;Attitude Era&#8221; and called some of the most memorable matches in the history of the WWE. Ross made his WWE debut at WrestleMania IX in 1993 wearing a toga and later found himself inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Know on screen as a ring side commentator, Ross was also instrumental in heading up the talent department.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hMp65SzyTU\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the WWE, Ross intends to focus on his personal business endeavors &#8211; his ever growing line of BBQ sauce and restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Ross is retiring from the WWE. On Wednesday the commentator announced that he was retiring from the WWE after 20 years. Ross was the unofficial voice the &#8220;Attitude Era&#8221; and called some of the most memorable matches in the history of the WWE. Ross made his WWE debut at WrestleMania IX in 1993 wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jim-ross"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}