{"id":78388,"date":"2025-08-18T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78388\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:47:10","slug":"jon-jones-defies-dana-white-for-ufc-white-house-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78388\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones Defies Dana White for UFC White House Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cDespite the odds, I\u2019m still training and optimistic about the possibility of being part of the White House event,\u201d Jones wrote. At the end of the day, Dana is the boss and it\u2019s his call whether I compete that night or not. I do know Dana was really excited about the fight, and the door hasn\u2019t been completely closed. That\u2019s all a guy like me really needs. It sounds like another awesome goal to be inspired by. Sometimes in life, we\u2019re not going to reach everything we set out to do and that\u2019s okay. But I like my chances\u2026 after all, one in a billion is exactly what it took to end up as Jon \u2018Bones\u2019 Jones in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDespite the odds, I\u2019m still training and optimistic about the possibility of being part of the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-78388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}