{"id":1020953,"date":"2020-07-13T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1020953"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:36:22","slug":"activists-cheer-redskins-change-set-sights-on-new-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1020953","title":{"rendered":"Activists cheer Redskins&#8217; change, set sights on new targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jul\/13\/activists-cheer-redskins-change-set-sights-new-tar\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2020\/07\/13\/Braves_Name_Baseball_97433.jpg-1ad88_s1440x918.jpg?579bcad55d05a7b500c21e722a47678db0126984\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins&#8217; plans to retire their name and logo follow years of scrutiny over the appropriateness and potential racism of using the word and making an American Indian man their mascot.<\/p>\n<p>But while the Redskins have drawn the most ire because dictionaries define the word as a racial slur, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jul\/13\/activists-cheer-redskins-change-set-sights-new-tar\/?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\/13\/activists-cheer-redskins-change-set-sights-new-tar\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Activists cheer Redskins' change, set sights on new targets\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins&#8217; plans to retire their name and logo follow years of scrutiny over the appropriateness and potential racism of using the word and&#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-1020953","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\/1020953","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=1020953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}