{"id":31694,"date":"2013-11-07T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31694"},"modified":"2013-11-07T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:22:14","slug":"dayton-rybak-redskins-should-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31694","title":{"rendered":"Dayton, Rybak- Redskins Should Change Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Nov 7, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s governor and the mayor of Minneapolis both say the Washington Redskins should change the team&#8217;s name.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Minnesota Vikings play Washington on Thursday evening.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gov. Mark Dayton was asked about the Redskins&#8217; nickname at a Thursday morning news conference. He called it &#8220;racist&#8221; and suggested every member of Congress should boycott the team to put pressure on its owners.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak released a statement saying the name disrespects indigenous people. Six members of the Minneapolis City Council had recently sent a letter to the team&#8217;s owner and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell calling the nickname and team mascot racist.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Indian activists and others plan a demonstration Thursday night outside the Metrodome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Nov 7, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s governor and the mayor of Minneapolis both say the Washington Redskins should change the team&#8217;s name. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Minnesota Vikings play Washington on Thursday evening. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gov. Mark Dayton was asked about the Redskins&#8217; nickname at a Thursday morning news conference. [&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-31694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694","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=31694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31699,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions\/31699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}