{"id":885,"date":"2011-10-21T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saints247.net\/?p=885"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:41:45","slug":"olin-kreutz-to-leave-saints-citing-lack-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/2011\/10\/olin-kreutz-to-leave-saints-citing-lack-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Olin Kreutz to Leave Saints Citing Lack of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN is reporting that Saints Center Olin Kreutz is leaving the team for the rest of the season, citing a lack of passion for the game. &#8220;He loves the games,&#8221; said his agent, Mark  Bartelstein. &#8220;He has to love the game. He just hasn&#8217;t been feeling it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Saints will first place Kreutz on the left-team list and  then eventually release him, assuring that they won&#8217;t owe the guaranteed portion of his contract. He had been battling a  sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his left knee, but that was no cited as a reason for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Kreutz felt as though he had been playing for a check instead  of playing the game at his highest level, according to his agent.The  team gave him some time to make a decision, and Kreutz decided to leave  for good Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN is reporting that Saints Center Olin Kreutz is leaving the team for the rest of the season, citing a lack of passion for the game. &#8220;He loves the games,&#8221; said his agent, Mark Bartelstein. &#8220;He has to love the game. He just hasn&#8217;t been feeling it.&#8221; The Saints will first place Kreutz on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}