{"id":8322,"date":"2011-07-11T16:28:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2011-07-11T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:57:12","slug":"steelers%e2%80%99-hines-ward-arrested-on-dui-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"Steelers\u2019 Hines Ward Arrested On DUI Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DECATUR, GA \u2014 Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver <strong>Hines Ward<\/strong> was arrested early Saturday in Georgia on a drunken driving charge, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Super Bowl MVP and reigning \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d champ was booked into the DeKalb County jail just outside Atlanta at 3:41 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence. A jail official said he was released on $1,300 bond, though the sheriff\u2019s office website said his bond was set at $1,000. The discrepancy couldn\u2019t be immediately resolved Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Since being drafted in the third round out of Georgia in 1998, the 35-year-old <strong>Ward<\/strong> has been a four-time Pro Bowl selection and won two Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Dancing with professional partner <strong>Kym Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Ward<\/strong> in May became the second professional football player to win the \u201cDancing\u201d crown after <strong>Emmitt Smith<\/strong> won in 2006. He bested actresses <strong>Kirstie Alley<\/strong> and <strong>Chelsea Kane<\/strong> to become the season 12 champion of the TV celebrity dance competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECATUR, GA \u2014 Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver Hines Ward was arrested early Saturday in Georgia on a drunken driving charge, sheriff\u2019s officials said. The former Super Bowl MVP and reigning \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d champ was booked into the DeKalb County jail just outside Atlanta at 3:41 a.m. and charged with driving under the [&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-8322","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\/8322","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=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}