{"id":38097,"date":"2022-06-05T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cardinals-brendan-donovan-addresses-his-old-homophobic-tweets\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:20:14","slug":"cardinals-brendan-donovan-addresses-his-old-homophobic-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cardinals-brendan-donovan-addresses-his-old-homophobic-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Brendan Donovan addresses his old, homophobic tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8211; Cardinals rookie Brendan Donovan apologized Saturday night for tweets he sent with homophobic language as a teenager that surfaced during St. Louis&#8217; game against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users directed Donovan&#8217;s tweets to the attention of reporters during a doubleheader in Chicago, including at least one that used an anti-gay slur.  Donovan&#8217;s Twitter account was deleted shortly after the second game, in which Donovan hit a two-run double in the 10th inning to spur a 7-4 Cardinals victory.<\/p>\n<p>The flagged tweets were sent in 2011 and 2013, and the 25-year-old Donovan said Saturday they were part of \u201cplayful banter\u201d with a friend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Cardinals rookie Brendan Donovan<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI take full responsibility,\u201d Donovan said.  \u201cIt was something I sent out a long time ago.  I&#8217;m truly sorry to anyone I may have offended.  Anyone that knows me as a person knows I see everyone the same, and I do not condone that type of behavior or anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I&#8217;ve offended you, I truly apologize.  Hopefully, I can do my part to show you that&#8217;s not who I am. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8211; Cardinals rookie Brendan Donovan apologized Saturday night for tweets he sent with homophobic language as a teenager that surfaced during St. Louis&#8217; game against the Chicago Cubs. Twitter users directed Donovan&#8217;s tweets to the attention of reporters during a doubleheader in Chicago, including at least one that used an anti-gay slur. Donovan&#8217;s Twitter &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cardinals-brendan-donovan-addresses-his-old-homophobic-tweets\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinals&#8217; Brendan Donovan addresses his old, homophobic tweets<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,236,295,378],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Brendan-Donovan-tweets.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}