{"id":347500,"date":"2017-06-16T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=347500"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:18:42","slug":"chizik-opens-up-about-major-life-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/chizik-opens-up-about-major-life-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Chizik opens up about major life decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chizik-column.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-347501\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chizik-column.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Auburn national championship football coach Gene Chizik wrote a column Friday for USA Today in which he expressed his love for Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>He also explained why he has no regrets about walking away from the sport in order to concentrate on being a better father.<\/p>\n<p>In the column, he identified the day he decided to make a change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2016, as I walked to another two-a-day practice at North Carolina, I watched carloads of families moving into the freshmen dorms,&#8221; Chizik wrote. &#8220;My family was doing the exact same thing 500 miles away. That\u2019s when it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was time to make a change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the complete column, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2017\/06\/16\/gene-chizik-father-leave-college-football-coaching-family\/403115001\/\">this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more, listen to Sports Drive with Randy and Creg weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Auburn national championship football coach Gene Chizik wrote a column Friday for USA Today in which he expressed his love for Auburn. He also <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/chizik-opens-up-about-major-life-decision\/\" title=\"Chizik opens up about major life decision\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-auburn","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347502,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500\/revisions\/347502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}