{"id":983105,"date":"2022-02-09T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/west-ham-blast-kurt-for-hitting-his-cat\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:51:54","slug":"west-ham-blast-kurt-for-hitting-his-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/west-ham-blast-kurt-for-hitting-his-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham Blast Kurt \u2026For Hitting His Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>West Ham United have \u201cunreservedly condemned\u201d Kurt Zouma for hitting his cat after a video emerged of the France defender kicking and slapping his pet.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows 27-year-old Zouma kicking the cat across the floor and slapping it in the face.<\/p>\n<p>He has apologised and the club say they will deal with the incident internally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to apologise for my actions. There are no excuses for my behaviour, which I sincerely regret,\u201d the centre-back said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to say how deeply sorry I am to anyone who was upset by the video. I would like to assure everyone that our two cats are perfectly fine and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are loved and cherished by our entire family, and this behaviour was an isolated incident that will not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further footage, first published by\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>\u00a0and reportedly filmed by Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, shows the player throwing shoes at the pet and chasing it around a room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Ham United unreservedly condemns the actions of Kurt Zouma in the video that has circulated,\u201d said the club, who\u00a0signed\u00a0the defender in the summer from Chelsea for \u00a329.8m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have spoken to Kurt and will be dealing with the matter internally, but we would like to make it clear that we in no way condone cruelty towards animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United have \u201cunreservedly condemned\u201d Kurt Zouma for hitting his cat after a video emerged of the France defender kicking and slapping his pet. The video shows 27-year-old Zouma kicking the cat across the floor and slapping it in the face. He has apologised and the club say they will deal with the incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4623,4537,4635,4616,1603,916],"class_list":{"0":"post-983105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-blast","9":"tag-cat","10":"tag-ham","11":"tag-hitting","12":"tag-kurt","13":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}