{"id":1020549,"date":"2020-07-13T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1020549"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:40:04","slug":"washington-nfl-team-dropping-redskins-name-after-87-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1020549","title":{"rendered":"Washington NFL team dropping &#8216;Redskins&#8217; name after 87 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-washington-nfl-team-dropping-redskins-name\/19186104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2020\/07\/13\/19185787\/5f0be81207ae3-media_9ef47c40f72247e08ce6b3c3b21ae4c8-DMID1-5nhkav84j-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Redskins_Name_Football_10391\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday that it will drop the \u201cRedskins\u201d name and Indian head logo immediately, bowing to decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-washington-nfl-team-dropping-redskins-name\/19186104\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ap-source-washington-nfl-team-dropping-redskins-name\/19186104\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Washington NFL team dropping &#039;Redskins&#039; name after 87 years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday that it will drop the \u201cRedskins\u201d name and Indian head logo immediately, bowing to decades of criticism that they are&#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-1020549","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\/1020549","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=1020549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905867,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020549\/revisions\/1905867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}