{"id":499517,"date":"2016-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/welcome-back-joe-alexander-rejoins-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T09:00:00","slug":"welcome-back-joe-alexander-rejoins-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/welcome-back-joe-alexander-rejoins-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back: Joe Alexander rejoins Maccabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv have added a physical and athletic presence to their roster. Joe Alexander (29, 6&#8217;7) rejoined the team for a second term. Alexander who played for Maccabi during the 2014\/15 season signed a one year contract, with a team option for a second year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Alexander spent 2015\/16 in Italy, playing for Dinamo Sessari, and posted good numbers, both in the very competitive Seria A (12.5 PPG, 4.4 RPG) and in the Euroleague (10.9 PPG, 4.9 RPG).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> \t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JvINuS5S7U\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe> \t<\/p>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;When I heard there might be an option to come back to Maccabi, it was too good to be true&#8221;, said Alexander, &#8220;it&#8217;s like a dream come true for me. Maccabi is such a great and unique club, with a rich history and amazing fans. I feel much more accustomed to the European style of play and look forward to having a great season&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The athletic forward will start his second term on the team after signing a one year contract: &#8220;I&#8217;m extremely excited to be back. It&#8217;s like a dream come true&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499517","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\/499517","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=499517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499517"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}