{"id":38756,"date":"2015-05-01T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=38756"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:31:27","slug":"surrounded-by-family-jameis-winston-soaks-in-joy-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=38756","title":{"rendered":"Surrounded By Family, Jameis Winston Soaks In Joy Of NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BESSEMER, Ala. \u2013 When the moment of validation came on Thursday night, Jameis Winston took a seat on the edge of a coffee table in a crowded living room, surrounded by his parents, his grandmother, his girlfriend and a couple dozen other family members and friends.<\/p>\n<p>It was 7:06 local time, and Winston clutched his smartphone (fittingly, a red mobile device) to listen carefully to the man on the other end of the line, Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s up, Mr. Licht?&#8221; Winston said amid the hushed room in the center of a family friend&#8217;s sprawling home.<\/p>\n<p>A pause, then a response: &#8220;I&#8217;m doing pretty good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a brief conversation, Winston hung up and made an announcement, a few minutes before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made it official in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to Tampa Bay!&#8221; he screamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BESSEMER, Ala. \u2013 When the moment of validation came on Thursday night, Jameis Winston took a seat on the edge of a coffee table in a crowded living room, surrounded by his parents, his grandmother, his girlfriend and a couple dozen other family members and friends. It was 7:06 local time, and Winston clutched his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88910,"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-38756","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\/38756","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\/88910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}