{"id":14877,"date":"2012-05-31T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:57:03","slug":"barry-bonds-moves-forward-from-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14877","title":{"rendered":"Barry Bonds Moves Forward From Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>Barry Bonds<\/strong> is publicly referring to himself as a convicted felon these days, and he\u2019s quick to point out that conviction was never for steroid use.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed his obstruction of justice conviction from April 2011 on one count of giving an evasive answer to a 2003 grand jury investigating illegal steroids distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went through the system. And that\u2019s what it is,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Bonds<\/strong> said Monday, attending the Diamondbacks-Giants while doing charity work through Big Brothers and Sisters of the Bay Area. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I got. I went through the system. I\u2019m in an appeal process right now. I was never convicted of steroids.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n<p>The slugger said he met recently with Giants president and CEO <strong>Larry Baer<\/strong> about working for the club in some capacity, and <strong>Bonds<\/strong> has a personal services contract the Giants have said could go into effect once his legal proceedings were in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0 &#8211; Barry Bonds is publicly referring to himself as a convicted felon these days, and he\u2019s quick to point out that conviction was never for steroid use. He appealed his obstruction of justice conviction from April 2011 on one count of giving an evasive answer to a 2003 grand jury investigating illegal steroids [&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-14877","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\/14877","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=14877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}