{"id":1007000,"date":"2020-06-30T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1007000"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:15:29","slug":"george-preston-marshall-and-the-dustbin-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1007000","title":{"rendered":"George Preston Marshall and the dustbin of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/30\/george-preston-marshall-and-dustbin-history\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2020\/06\/24\/redskins_marshall_football_90644_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins have clearly woken up to the fact that their founder and former owner George Preston Marshall was a racist. They are trying to wipe out all evidence of his existence.<\/p>\n<p>After the city suddenly decided it was worth the cost of getting rid of the monument to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/30\/george-preston-marshall-and-dustbin-history\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/30\/george-preston-marshall-and-dustbin-history\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"George Preston Marshall and the dustbin of history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins have clearly woken up to the fact that their founder and former owner George Preston Marshall was a racist. They are trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907876,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007000\/revisions\/1907876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}