{"id":497507,"date":"2013-08-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/shawn-james-returns-feels-great-to-be-back\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:00:00","slug":"shawn-james-returns-feels-great-to-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/shawn-james-returns-feels-great-to-be-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn James Returns: \u201cFeels great to be back.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \tBy Amy Samin<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \tMaccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s center, Shawn James \u2013 who was named to the All Euroleague Second Team at the end of last season \u2013 has returned to Israel and is eager to begin his third season with Maccabi, saying \u201cIt feels great to be back.\u201d When asked if he thought he would be named team captain this season, James replied, \u201cThey haven\u2019t talked to me about that, but who wouldn\u2019t want to be Maccabi\u2019s captain?\u201d James also talked about the return of center Sofo Schortsanitis: \u201cSofo\u2019s going to be a big help, especially with team morale. He\u2019s a great talent, and it doesn\u2019t really matter which one of us is in the starting five.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t <\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; \"> \t\u201cI don\u2019t feel a big weight on me because I\u2019m a key player on the team. I\u2019m a defensive player, and I\u2019m the one who puts pressure on myself in those situations. We have a really top level team; if we stay healthy and with the depth we\u2019ve added this season, it seems like we can go farther in Europe than we did last year.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s center, American Shawn James, landed in Israel on Monday and is ready to get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-497507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497507"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=497507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}