{"id":79538,"date":"2025-07-21T02:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79538\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:35:10","slug":"liberty-can-finally-feel-like-themselves-again-as-second-half-gauntlet-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79538\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty can finally feel like themselves again as second-half gauntlet begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The past few days surrounding the WNBA All-Star Game were filled with fun and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Players partied, danced and made surprise appearances \u2014regardless of whether they wanted to \u2014 on Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman\u2019s 72-hour stream.<\/p>\n<p>They also used the weekend to regroup as a collective while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/18\/sports\/wnba-players-say-initial-talks-with-league-were-wasted-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collective bargaining agreement negotiations heat up<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sports\/wnbas-cathy-engelbert-counters-on-constructive-cba-talks-as-all-stars-send-message\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a message Saturday night<\/a>, too, by wearing \u201cPay us what you owe us\u201d T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty, specifically, had a strong showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The past few days surrounding the WNBA All-Star Game were filled with fun and productivity. Players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2338,1520,62,2632,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-79538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-jonquel-jones","9":"tag-new-york-liberty","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-columnists","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114888895680467986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}