{"id":10348,"date":"2011-10-03T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2011-10-03T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:30:38","slug":"walter-payton-book-alleges-drug-abuse-adultery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10348","title":{"rendered":"Walter Payton Book Alleges Drug Abuse, Adultery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book about <strong>Walter Payton<\/strong>, the Chicago Bears\u2019 legendary Hall of Famer, reveals a controversial, private side of the running back and has drawn criticism from his family.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton<\/em>, <strong>Jeff Pearlman<\/strong> chronicles <strong>Payton\u2019s<\/strong> life from his childhood in Mississippi and battle with a rare liver disease and death from bile duct cancer in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts in <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> relate tales of <strong>Payton\u2019s<\/strong> extramarital affairs, including a scene in Canton, Ohio, when <strong>Payton<\/strong> took both his wife and girlfriend to his Hall of Fame induction. <strong>Payton<\/strong>, <strong>Pearlman<\/strong> writes in detail, battled depression and was addicted to painkillers during his playing career and afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book about Walter Payton, the Chicago Bears\u2019 legendary Hall of Famer, reveals a controversial, private side of the running back and has drawn criticism from his family. In Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton, Jeff Pearlman chronicles Payton\u2019s life from his childhood in Mississippi and battle with a rare liver disease and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}