{"id":7875,"date":"2011-06-23T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2011-06-23T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:18:10","slug":"barber-battled-depression-says-he-needs-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7875","title":{"rendered":"Barber Battled Depression, Says  He Needs Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Tiki Barber<\/strong> says failures off the field after his retirement from football in 2006 led to a yearlong bout with depression.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old <strong>Barber<\/strong>, the New York Giants\u2019 career leading rusher, acknowledged that he now needs football more than it needs him.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barber<\/strong> has spent the past four months working out in an attempt to make a comeback, although his chances rest on the league and its players reaching a new collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barber<\/strong> said football represents a necessary anchor in a life turned upside down by the depressive aftermath of scandalous divorce and disintegration of his television career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 Tiki Barber says failures off the field after his retirement from football in 2006 led to a yearlong bout with depression. The 36-year-old Barber, the New York Giants\u2019 career leading rusher, acknowledged that he now needs football more than it needs him. Barber has spent the past four months working out [&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-7875","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\/7875","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=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}