{"id":11241,"date":"2011-11-10T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:25:00","slug":"tiger-woods-says-ex-caddie-apologized-for-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11241","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Says Ex-Caddie  Apologized For Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong> took the high road in making his first public comments about his former caddie,<strong> Steve Williams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Stevie\u2019s<\/strong> certainly not a racist, there\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d <strong>Woods<\/strong> said in a packed press conference. \u201cIt was a comment that definitely shouldn\u2019t have been made, and he certainly regrets that comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woods<\/strong> said he and <strong>Williams<\/strong> met face-to-face in Sydney, <strong>Williams<\/strong> apologized and the two shook hands.<\/p>\n<p>The former world No. 1 was seemingly the last person to comment on the inflammatory insult that stunned many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy aim was to shove it up that black a\u2014\u2014\u2014,\u201d<strong> Williams<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the event was billed as a bawdy roast in which all comments would be off the record, the racial comment\u2014made into a microphone on stage, and in front of several players, media and others\u2014made its way around the world quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hurtful, certainly,\u201d <strong>Woods<\/strong> said. \u201cBut you know, life goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for their relationship in the future, he added, \u201cWe\u2019ll see what time does. As we all know time heals all wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods took the high road in making his first public comments about his former caddie, Steve Williams. \u201cStevie\u2019s certainly not a racist, there\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d Woods said in a packed press conference. \u201cIt was a comment that definitely shouldn\u2019t have been made, and he certainly regrets that comment.\u201d Woods said he 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-11241","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\/11241","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=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}