{"id":1161433,"date":"2020-12-13T22:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1161433"},"modified":"2020-12-13T22:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:04:28","slug":"clevelands-baseball-team-will-drop-its-indians-team-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1161433","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland&#8217;s Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cleveland-s-baseball-team-will-drop-its-indians-team-name\/19428209\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/12\/10\/19422512\/5fd1b2bc78f05-media_cc2c62b58939481d863e0cd6a118e339-DMID1-5p541z7yi-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"BBWAA_Awards_Baseball_68261\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cleveland-s-baseball-team-will-drop-its-indians-team-name\/19428209\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cleveland-s-baseball-team-will-drop-its-indians-team-name\/19428209\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Cleveland&#039;s Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that&#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-1161433","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\/1161433","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=1161433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}