{"id":319566,"date":"2014-11-25T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319566"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:26:31","slug":"peterson-weighs-in-on-ferguson-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319566","title":{"rendered":"Peterson Weighs In on Ferguson Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_adrian_peterson_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_adrian_peterson_1-150x108.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_adrian_peterson_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-319567\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson has sparked anger after appearing to compare his child abuse charges to the situation unfolding in Ferguson.   Peterson pleaded no contest in a Conroe courtroom to a misdemeanor assault charge following his arrest for disciplining his four-year-old son with a switch.    Now he&#8217;s taken to Twitter with, &#8220;The grand jury decided not to indict me too!  But that changed a week later!   Maybe, but not likely in this case.&#8221;   One follower tweeted, &#8220;Not the same thing &#8212; let it ride.&#8221;  The Palestine native followed with yet another tweet an hour later: &#8220;My heart goes out to Mike Brown&#8217;s family!   My thoughts &#038; prayers are with you!&#8221;   The NFL has suspended Peterson without pay for the remainder of the 2014 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson has sparked anger after appearing to compare his child abuse charges to the situation unfolding in Ferguson. Peterson pleaded no contest in a Conroe courtroom to a misdemeanor assault charge following his arrest for disciplining his four-year-old son with a switch. Now he&#8217;s taken to Twitter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peterson Weighs In on Ferguson Case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 10:45:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319568,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319566\/revisions\/319568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}