{"id":45612,"date":"2025-09-29T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/45612\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:28:08","slug":"wrexham-icon-announces-retirement-in-heartfelt-post-after-being-released-by-ryan-reynolds-and-rob-mcelhenneys-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/45612\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham icon announces retirement in heartfelt post after being released by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney&#8217;s side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Wrexham icon Steven Fletcher has announced his retirement from professional football after being released by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-owned side at the end of the 2024-25 campaign. The 38-year-old, who has played for several clubs across England, Scotland and France in his two-decade-long career, finally decided to bring the curtain down on his illustrious journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham icon Steven Fletcher has announced his retirement from professional football after being released by Ryan Reynolds and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36038,85,46,36037,105,36036],"class_list":{"0":"post-45612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-championship","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-s-fletcher","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wrexham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}