{"id":1204810,"date":"2021-02-02T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1204810"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:21:07","slug":"family-of-panthers-icon-sam-mills-has-waited-19-years-for-the-knock-timing-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1204810","title":{"rendered":"Family of Panthers icon Sam Mills has waited 19 years for the knock. Timing is everything."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL season was over, and Sam Mills III was driving from Washington back toward North Carolina, the state where his father once starred for the Carolina Panthers and later \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248924709.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248924709.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article248924709.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Family of Panthers icon Sam Mills has waited 19 years for the knock. Timing is everything.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL season was over, and Sam Mills III was driving from Washington back toward North Carolina, the state where his father once starred for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204810","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=1204810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895223,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204810\/revisions\/1895223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}