{"id":1009061,"date":"2020-07-02T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1009061"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T21:59:59","slug":"fedex-requests-redskins-to-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1009061","title":{"rendered":"FedEx requests Redskins to change name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jul\/2\/fedex-requests-redskins-change-name\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2018\/08\/19\/Jets_Redskins_Football_22068.jpg-5acf3_s1440x953.jpg?05190af341e11364a23baf2a45a6f762c8f231b1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>FedEX said Thursday it has asked the Washington Redskins to change their name. <\/p>\n<p>The company sponsors the team&#8217;s stadium in Landover, Maryland, and its CEO, Frederick Smith, is part of the Redskins&#8217; ownership committee. <\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,\u201c &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jul\/2\/fedex-requests-redskins-change-name\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jul\/2\/fedex-requests-redskins-change-name\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"FedEx requests Redskins to change name\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEX said Thursday it has asked the Washington Redskins to change their name. The company sponsors the team&#8217;s stadium in Landover, Maryland, and its CEO,&#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-1009061","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\/1009061","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=1009061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}