{"id":18027,"date":"2013-05-02T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18027"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:32:59","slug":"poll-washington-redskins-nickname-should-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18027","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Washington &#8220;Redskins&#8221; Nickname Should Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Four in five Americans don&#8217;t think the Washington Redskins should change the team&#8217;s nickname. That&#8217;s according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some consider &#8220;Redskins&#8221; to be a derogatory term for Native Americans, and the team has faced a barrage of criticism for refusing to change it. Opponents recently launched a new round of legal proceedings intended to deny the team federal trademark protection.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the poll conducted last month shows that nationally, &#8220;Redskins&#8221; still enjoys widespread support. Seventy-nine percent of Americans were in favor of keeping the name, and just 11 percent said it should be changed. Eight percent weren&#8217;t sure and 2 percent didn&#8217;t answer<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There has been a slight drop in support since a Washington Post\/ABC News poll in 1992 showed 89 percent backed the team&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Four in five Americans don&#8217;t think the Washington Redskins should change the team&#8217;s nickname. That&#8217;s according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some consider &#8220;Redskins&#8221; to be a derogatory term for Native Americans, and the team has faced a barrage of criticism for refusing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027","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=18027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18029,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027\/revisions\/18029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}