{"id":590400,"date":"2026-04-17T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:29:08","slug":"sue-bird-and-megan-rapinoe-announce-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590400\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Announce Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have announced their split after being together for nearly an decade. The athletes revealed the news via a joint post on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cThere really is no smooth or easy way to share this news,\u201d their statement begins. \u201cAfter a lot of thought, we&#8217;ve made the decision to separate as a couple.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThis hasn&#8217;t been an easy decision, but it&#8217;s one we&#8217;ve made together, with so much love, respect, and care for each other,\u201d the statement continues. \u201cWe&#8217;ve shared a whole life over the last decade, through big moments and in quiet ones, and that is something we&#8217;ll always carry with us.&#8221;<br \/>In the announcement, the two reveal that they won\u2019t be doing their podcast A Touch More together. \u201cThe conversations, the laughter. the connection &#8211; it means more than we can put into words,\u201d their statement reads. \u201cWhile this chapter of doing the podcast together is ending, what we&#8217;ve built with you isn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have announced their split after being together for nearly an decade. The athletes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-590400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}