{"id":33218,"date":"2013-11-27T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33218"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:37:46","slug":"navajo-code-talker-speaks-about-redskins-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33218","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Code Talker Speaks About &#8220;Redskins&#8221; Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(AP)\u00a0 A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game says he considers the team name a symbol of loyalty and courage &#8211; not a derogatory slur.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy Hawthorne was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hawthorne says the Code Talkers met with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name. Hawthorne says the word redskins is a Native-American icon that has many positive meanings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The brief ceremony came amid a &#8220;Change the Mascot&#8221; campaign by some Indians and civil rights leaders who regard the word redskins as a racial epithet.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Snyder has called it a badge of honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(AP)\u00a0 A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game says he considers the team name a symbol of loyalty and courage &#8211; not a derogatory slur. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy Hawthorne was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World [&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-33218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218","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=33218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33221,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions\/33221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}