{"id":37012,"date":"2014-01-15T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37012"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:25:54","slug":"vikes-to-hire-zimmer-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37012","title":{"rendered":"Vikes To Hire Zimmer, Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zimmermike.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37013\" alt=\"zimmermike\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/zimmermike.bmp\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; A person with knowledge of the process says the Minnesota Vikings and Mike Zimmer are in negotiations to make him the new head coach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The person spoke to the Associated Press Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been completed and the team had not announced the hiring.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zimmer is the Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; defensive coordinator. He would replace Leslie Frazier, who was fired Dec. 30 after the team finished 5-10-1 this season. Zimmer will be the ninth head coach in the franchise&#8217;s 54-year history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 General manager Rick Spielman interviewed at least seven candidates for the job. Zimmer has been an NFL defensive coordinator for the last 14 seasons, including six with the Bengals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; A person with knowledge of the process says the Minnesota Vikings and Mike Zimmer are in negotiations to make him the new head coach. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The person spoke to the Associated Press Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been completed and the [&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-37012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37012","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=37012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37016,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37012\/revisions\/37016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}