{"id":9771,"date":"2026-03-11T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-soccer-players-seeking-asylum-are-part-of-a-history-of-athlete-defections-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:41:10","slug":"iran-soccer-players-seeking-asylum-are-part-of-a-history-of-athlete-defections-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-soccer-players-seeking-asylum-are-part-of-a-history-of-athlete-defections-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Soccer Players Seeking Asylum Are Part of a History of Athlete Defections &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE1ZY3N6cUE5dEsyTjhPVjFmaU9JUEM3amViOVpKR3RlLVdLa3c4M2hrd3N3MXlwYW1Pc3ozVk83d28ybVhrcE9GaVdkbElVTVh3bTlpRVh6N2thaGtPWEJqb002WTl2MF8wdjhkemJUQUIxVU5lN3ZZLTR0UQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Iran Soccer Players Seeking Asylum Are Part of a History of Athlete Defections<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Soccer Players Seeking Asylum Are Part of a History of Athlete Defections&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<\/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-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}