{"id":3575,"date":"2013-09-18T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/la-kiss-hires-bob-mcmillen-as-coach-of-afl-team\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:22:41","slug":"la-kiss-hires-bob-mcmillen-as-coach-of-afl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/la-kiss-hires-bob-mcmillen-as-coach-of-afl-team\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Kiss hires Bob McMillen as coach of AFL team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/f9\/LAKisslogo.PNG\/250px-LAKisslogo.PNG\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The new Arena Football League team named for the rock band Kiss has hired its coach.<\/p>\n<p>Former AFL player and veteran coach Bob McMillen will oversee the expansion LA Kiss when it begins play next year in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>McMillen retired as a player in 2007, finishing as the AFL&#8217;s second all-time leading rusher. He spent three years as coach of the league&#8217;s Chicago Rush. Earlier this year, McMillen was elected into the league&#8217;s hall of fame.<\/p>\n<p>LA Kiss co-owners Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley helped announce McMillen&#8217;s hiring on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons says McMillen shares the ownership&#8217;s philosophy of &#8220;go big or go home&#8221; in bringing &#8220;in-your-face football&#8221; to the region.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/busites_www.s3.amazonaws.com\/lakissfootballcom\/content\/Bob-McMillen-Headshot.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Arena Football League team named for the rock band Kiss has hired its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}