{"id":17344,"date":"2012-10-11T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:37:58","slug":"bears-not-discussing-extension-with-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17344","title":{"rendered":"Bears Not Discussing Extension With Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE FOREST, Ill. &#8212; General manager<strong> Phil Emery<\/strong> says the Chicago Bears have not discussed a contract extension with coach <strong>Lovie Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emery<\/strong> said Wednesday there are simply &#8220;not enough hours in a day&#8221; during the season and that he prefers to negotiate during the offseason. <strong>Smith&#8217;s<\/strong> contract doesn&#8217;t expire until after the 2013 season. The Bears are in a good spot heading into their off week with a 4-1 record and a share of the NFC North lead with Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE FOREST, Ill. &#8212; General manager Phil Emery says the Chicago Bears have not discussed a contract extension with coach Lovie Smith. Emery said Wednesday there are simply &#8220;not enough hours in a day&#8221; during the season and that he prefers to negotiate during the offseason. Smith&#8217;s contract doesn&#8217;t expire until after the 2013 season. [&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-17344","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\/17344","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=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}