{"id":104926,"date":"2016-07-28T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104926"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:08:51","slug":"vikes-extend-zimmers-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104926","title":{"rendered":"Vikes extend Zimmer&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37013\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zimmermike.bmp\" alt=\"zimmermike\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37013\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zimmermike.bmp\" alt=\"zimmermike\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ZimmerMike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104948\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ZimmerMike-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"ZimmerMike\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ZimmerMike-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ZimmerMike-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ZimmerMike.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings have given coach Mike Zimmer a contract extension. Terms were not disclosed in Thursday&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer is 18-14 in two seasons with Minnesota and expectations are high this year after the team went 11-5 and won the NFC North last season.<\/p>\n<p>Co-owner and team president Mark Wilf says Zimmer has helped &#8220;transform the culture&#8221; of the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings have given coach Mike Zimmer a contract extension. Terms were not disclosed in Thursday&#8217;s announcement. Zimmer is 18-14 in two seasons with Minnesota and expectations are high this year after the team went 11-5 and won the NFC North last season. Co-owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104950,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104926\/revisions\/104950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}