{"id":3052,"date":"2016-04-21T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T02:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/curt-schilling-out-at-espn-after-transphobic-facebook-post\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T02:46:58","slug":"curt-schilling-out-at-espn-after-transphobic-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/curt-schilling-out-at-espn-after-transphobic-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Schilling out at ESPN after transphobic Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Schilling\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzIxLzA1L1NjaGlsbGluZy4yMjJkYy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/737604bc\/569\/Schilling.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Curt+Schilling+out+at+ESPN+after+transphobic+Facebook+post&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F20%2Fcurt-schilling-fired-espn%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F20%2Fcurt-schilling-fired-espn%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, following his latest offensive social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/espn\/\">ESPN<\/a> announced the termination of the analyst and former <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mlb\/\">Major League Baseball<\/a> ace after he posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> comment about transgender people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/04\/19\/espn-employees-lowlights\/\">10 times ESPN employees acted like total jerks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u201cA man is a man no matter what they call themselves,\u201d Schilling wrote, seemingly in reference to a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/24\/nba-all-star-north-carolina-lgbt\/\">controversial anti-LGBT law<\/a> recently passed in North Carolina. \u201cI don\u2019t care what they are, who they sleep with, men\u2019s room was designed for the penis, women\u2019s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.\u201d<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/20\/curt-schilling-fired-espn\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/espn\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Espn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mlb\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mlb<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/sports\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/MEtXlWbafFw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, following his latest offensive social media post.\u00a0 ESPN announced the termination of the analyst and former Major League Baseball ace after he posted a Facebook comment about transgender people.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/curt-schilling-out-at-espn-after-transphobic-facebook-post\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1860,901,1417,740],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-espn","tag-media","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}