{"id":36339,"date":"2026-04-08T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/08\/pat-fitzgerald-was-vilified-then-vindicated-his-truth-comes-out-at-last-exclusive-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:46:00","slug":"pat-fitzgerald-was-vilified-then-vindicated-his-truth-comes-out-at-last-exclusive-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/08\/pat-fitzgerald-was-vilified-then-vindicated-his-truth-comes-out-at-last-exclusive-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Fitzgerald was vilified, then vindicated. His truth comes out at last | Exclusive &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi7wFBVV95cUxOUXJld3QxUk85cU1fN0pvbDBDWEQxOUM1dW5xTFV1MTVGSmFuLTVSWTItSTluVlMzcGxxWVoyVUhZc3ZrWXFEVnBxWk9BdHZuRjE0YzlvWFhiZG1EUWpVZlFPaFhGbkpHbTFjeUNtc0taS3ZWV0JWX3hOQTRIQnpEU25IRkxBMFlJaUVyMkJZVEJOWXZwUlFLTFYzLWFINkl6VzE1TnIzMnplaUo4Wm1JOWdQaFk4QVJMVmVwZmhCMm5RT2UzTWRIajVzemdWaGFTWU85b0hqSWxPTXNIb1FiU3RDNExkUHM4MVBGV2R2Yw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Fitzgerald was vilified, then vindicated. His truth comes out at last | Exclusive<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Fitzgerald was vilified, then vindicated. His truth comes out at last | Exclusive&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}