{"id":436098,"date":"2016-01-07T02:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T08:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=436098"},"modified":"2016-01-08T02:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T08:00:51","slug":"buccaneers-fire-coach-lovie-smith-after-2-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=436098","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Fire Coach Lovie Smith After 2 Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/Lovie-Smith.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-436100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/Lovie-Smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lovie Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-436100\" \/><\/a>TAMPA, FLA. (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired coach Lovie Smith on Wednesday night. Smith, A Gladewater native who was raised in Big Sandy, went 6-10 this season and 8-24 over two years in charge of the team. The announcement came as a surprise to many because Smith&#8217;s job was not considered to be in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FLA. (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired coach Lovie Smith on Wednesday night. Smith, A Gladewater native who was raised in Big Sandy, went 6-10 this season and 8-24 over two years in charge of the team. The announcement came as a surprise to many because Smith&#8217;s job was not considered to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=436098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buccaneers Fire Coach Lovie Smith After 2 Seasons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":436100,"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-436098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 17:54:31","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\/436098","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=436098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436101,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436098\/revisions\/436101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/436100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}