{"id":545,"date":"2009-12-29T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-12-29T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:02:04","slug":"silvio-samuel-skipping-the-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/12\/silvio-samuel-skipping-the-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvio Samuel Skipping the Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLEXonline.com reports that Silvio will skip the 2010 Arnold Classic for the first time in four years. He tells FLEX&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I will take a break to put on the size I need to put on,&#8221; Samuel said. &#8220;I wanted to do the Arnold Classic, but after more thought I do not believe that competing so soon after the Olympia is in my best interest. In order to make the impact I want to make, I want to make some improvements this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Olympia was not the result I would have liked,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s painful when you do not place where you hope. I do not blame anybody, but I was not happy with where I finished. I will take the time to improve and make sure I am better the next time I compete at the Olympia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexonline.com\/silvio_samuel_arnold_classic_2010_skipping\/news\/1072\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLEXonline.com reports that Silvio will skip the 2010 Arnold Classic for the first time in four years. He tells FLEX&#8230; &#8220;I will take a break to put on the size I need to put on,&#8221; Samuel said. &#8220;I wanted to do the Arnold Classic, but after more thought I do not believe that competing so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}