{"id":6974,"date":"2011-05-23T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:23:55","slug":"de-la-hoya-checks-himself-into-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6974","title":{"rendered":"De La Hoya Checks Himself Into Rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; Boxing great <strong>Oscar De La Hoya<\/strong> has entered himself into a California rehabilitation clinic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>De La Hoya<\/strong> entered the clinic for &#8220;substances abuse issues&#8221; and had begun rehabilitation sometime within the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement <strong>De La Hoya<\/strong> said: &#8220;After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest boxers in history, <strong>De La Hoya<\/strong> won 10 world titles in six weight classes and owns a career record of 39-6, with his final bout resulting in a loss to<strong> Manny Pacquaio <\/strong>in 2008. Upon retirement, <strong>De La Hoya<\/strong> started Golden Boy Promotions and several other out-of-ring ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life and career, <strong>De La Hoya <\/strong>said he met all challenges &#8220;head-on,&#8221; and promises this one to not be any different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that with the support of my family and friends, I will become a stronger, healthier person. I ask for respect and privacy as my family and I go through this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; Boxing great Oscar De La Hoya has entered himself into a California rehabilitation clinic. De La Hoya entered the clinic for &#8220;substances abuse issues&#8221; and had begun rehabilitation sometime within the past few weeks. In a statement De La Hoya said: &#8220;After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are [&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-6974","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\/6974","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=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}