{"id":827,"date":"2025-03-07T14:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:18:12","slug":"espn-will-pay-stephen-a-smith-100-million-to-work-less-and-talk-more-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/espn-will-pay-stephen-a-smith-100-million-to-work-less-and-talk-more-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN will pay Stephen A. Smith $100 million to work less and talk more about politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has agreed with <a href=\"\/topic\/stephen-smith\">Stephen A. Smith<\/a> on a new contract that will pay the bombastic sports commentator $100 million over five years and allow him to scale back his network appearances so he can focus more time talking about politics, <em>The Athletic<\/em> first <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-affiliate=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=44681X1458326&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2F6181819%2F2025%2F03%2F06%2Fstephen-a-smith-contract-espn-first-take%2F&amp;sref=\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/stephen-a-smith-espn-contract-b2711007.html\">reported<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has agreed with Stephen A. Smith on a new contract that will pay the bombastic sports commentator $100 million over five years and allow him to scale back his network appearances so he can focus more time talking about politics, The Athletic first reported this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/directory-inc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}