{"id":1008053,"date":"2020-07-01T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1008053"},"modified":"2020-07-01T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:01:37","slug":"ap-source-nfl-cutting-preseason-in-half-pushing-back-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1008053","title":{"rendered":"AP Source: NFL cutting preseason in half, pushing back start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-nfl-cutting-preseason-in-half-pushing-back-start\/19170602\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2020\/06\/25\/19161166\/5efd11162e0d8-media_36dfba64f62341329f3623293759bab3-DMID1-5nd3glc3z-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"HOF_Game_Canceled_Football_82276\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The NFL will cut its preseason in half and push back the start of exhibition play so teams have more time to train following an all virtual offseason made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-nfl-cutting-preseason-in-half-pushing-back-start\/19170602\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-nfl-cutting-preseason-in-half-pushing-back-start\/19170602\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"AP Source: NFL cutting preseason in half, pushing back start\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL will cut its preseason in half and push back the start of exhibition play so teams have more time to train following an&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008053","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=1008053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}