{"id":268,"date":"2014-01-05T20:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:11:46","slug":"seahawks-marshawn-lynch-fined-50000-by-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks-marshawn-lynch-fined-50000-by-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks&#8217; Marshawn Lynch fined $50,000 by NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshawn Lynch is paying the price for keeping his lips zipped.<\/p>\n<p>The league fined the Seattle Seahawks running back $50,000 for failing to speak with the media throughout the season, a team source told NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL fined Lynch this week only after it found out he had violated the league&#8217;s media policy, per Rapoport. ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter was first to report the news of the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch kept quiet until Friday, when he sat down with reporters for a brief conversation about his 1,257-yard, 12-touchdown campaign, which helped the Seahawks earn the top seed in the NFC. ESPN.com&#8217;s Terry Blount clocked Lynch&#8217;s Q&amp;A at 1 minute, 23 seconds, a chat scattered with clipped responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshawn Lynch is paying the price for keeping his lips zipped. The league fined the Seattle Seahawks running back $50,000 for failing to speak with the media throughout the season, a team source told NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport. The NFL fined Lynch this week only after it found out he had violated the league&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,94],"tags":[126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}