{"id":344715,"date":"2025-12-14T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344715\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:17:07","slug":"from-hoops-to-oysters-inside-the-unexpected-second-acts-of-wnba-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344715\/","title":{"rendered":"From hoops to oysters: Inside the unexpected second acts of WNBA stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sue Wicks, a retired WNBA star, found her next calling in oyster farming. Despite her successful basketball career, Wicks says she didn\u2019t earn enough to stop worrying about money. She is one of many female athletes launching new careers to fill in the gap when the final whistle blows. (AP video by Brittany Peterson)<\/p>\n<p>Sue Wicks, a retired WNBA star, found her next calling in oyster farming. Despite her successful basketball career, Wicks says she didn\u2019t earn enough to stop worrying about money. She is one of many female athletes launching new careers to fill in the gap when the final whistle blows. (AP video by Brittany Peterson)<\/p>\n<p>                    Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<br \/>\n                    \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue Wicks, a retired WNBA star, found her next calling in oyster farming. Despite her successful basketball career,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,10424,32357,47,3430,82,150433,150432,630,9709],"class_list":["post-344715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-media-api-video","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-sports-retirements","tag-sue-wicks","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}