{"id":2574,"date":"2007-06-27T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2007-06-27T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:45:00","slug":"wwe-shocked-at-latest-developments-in-benoit-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wwe-shocked-at-latest-developments-in-benoit-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE shocked at latest developments in Benoit tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE has released a press release regarding the <strong>Chris Benoit<\/strong> double-murder-suicide over the weekend.<br \/>\nThe company said they are &#8220;concerned with the sensationalistic reporting and speculation being undertaken by some members of the media.&#8221;<br \/>\nAccording to the press release, the murder of both Benoit&#8217;s wife and son was likely deliberated and not in an act of rage.<br \/>\nThe press release also says there was no evidence of illegal drugs in Benoit&#8217;s house and he tested clean for steroids in mid-April.<br \/>\nRead the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/news\/benoitpressrelease\">full press release<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/news\/chrisbenoittimeline\">timeline of events<\/a>.<br \/>\nAfter the facts surrounding the case were made known, WWE removed &#8220;all tributes to Chris Benoit&#8221; both on-air and on the web.<br \/>\n<strong>Vince McMahon<\/strong> also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/news\/chairmanbenoit\">made a brief introduction<\/a> before the WWE ECW show last night, dedicating the show to everyone affected by the tragedy and saying there would be no further mention of Benoit after his statement.<br \/>\nIt appears that other than the above links, there are no other pages for Chris Benoit anywhere on the WWE website. A search of his name brings up a number of pages but none of the links are valid anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE has released a press release regarding the Chris Benoit double-murder-suicide over the weekend. The company said they are &#8220;concerned with the sensationalistic reporting and speculation being undertaken by some members of the media.&#8221; According to the press release, the murder of both Benoit&#8217;s wife and son was likely deliberated and not in an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wwe-shocked-at-latest-developments-in-benoit-tragedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWE shocked at latest developments in Benoit tragedy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}