{"id":10969,"date":"2011-10-27T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2011-10-27T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:29:41","slug":"cook-suspended-after-felony-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10969","title":{"rendered":"Cook Suspended After Felony Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MINNEAPOLIS<\/strong> \u2014 Minnesota cornerback<strong> Chris Cook<\/strong> has been suspended indefinitely by the Vikings without pay, following a felony charge for allegedly strangling his girlfriend during an incident that left her bloodied.<\/p>\n<p>The team issued a statement late Tuesday announcing the suspension and describing the allegations as \u201cvery disturbing and disappointing,\u201d but declined to comment further \u201cuntil the appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook<\/strong> was charged earlier Tuesday with felony domestic assault by strangulation, which carries a penalty of up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. State guidelines call for a sentence of a year and a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook<\/strong> was released on $40,000 bail from jail, where he\u2019d been since his arrest early Saturday at his home in suburban Eden Prairie near team headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Minnesota cornerback Chris Cook has been suspended indefinitely by the Vikings without pay, following a felony charge for allegedly strangling his girlfriend during an incident that left her bloodied. The team issued a statement late Tuesday announcing the suspension and describing the allegations as \u201cvery disturbing and disappointing,\u201d but declined to comment further [&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-10969","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\/10969","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=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}