{"id":10539,"date":"2011-10-10T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:18:14","slug":"obama-salutes-1985-super-bowl-champs-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":"Obama Salutes 1985 Super Bowl Champs, The Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2014<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong> has saluted the 1985 Chicago Bears, his hometown team, for winning the Super Bowl a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Key players on the team, fabled for their on-field performances and off-field high-jinx, appeared on a sun washed South Lawn of the White House Friday to hear <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> declare: \u201cThis is as much fun as I will have as President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those in attendance was then Bears Coach <strong>Mike Ditka,<\/strong> who turned down Republican entreaties in 2004 to run against <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> for the U.S. Senate. Good thing, <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> joked. \u201cI would have been terrible on ESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team did not get the usual White House recognition in 1986, an oversight attributed to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which occurred days after that Super Bowl game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama has saluted the 1985 Chicago Bears, his hometown team, for winning the Super Bowl a quarter century ago. Key players on the team, fabled for their on-field performances and off-field high-jinx, appeared on a sun washed South Lawn of the White House Friday to hear Pres. Obama declare: \u201cThis is [&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-10539","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\/10539","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=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}