{"id":1009867,"date":"2020-07-03T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1009867"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:40:10","slug":"redskins-to-have-thorough-review-of-name-amid-race-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1009867","title":{"rendered":"Redskins to have &#8216;thorough review&#8217; of name amid race debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/redskins-undergoing-thorough-review-of-team-name\/19173334\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2020\/07\/03\/19173358\/07.03redskins-DMID1-5nds0hl18-80x60.jpg\" alt=\" Protesters at the Change the Mascot Rally on November 2, 2014, in Minneapolis. The protesters believe the name Washington Redskins is offensive to Native Americans.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins began a \u201cthorough review\u201d of their nickname Friday, a significant step toward moving on from what experts and advocates call a \u201cdictionary-defined racial slur.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/redskins-undergoing-thorough-review-of-team-name\/19173334\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/redskins-undergoing-thorough-review-of-team-name\/19173334\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins to have &#039;thorough review&#039; of name amid race debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins began a \u201cthorough review\u201d of their nickname Friday, a significant step toward moving on from what experts and advocates call a \u201cdictionary-defined racial&#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-1009867","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\/1009867","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=1009867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905881,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009867\/revisions\/1905881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}