{"id":1259919,"date":"2021-03-31T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1259919"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:48:50","slug":"former-unc-football-and-basketball-player-charlie-shaffer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1259919","title":{"rendered":"Former UNC football and basketball player Charlie Shaffer passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-unc-football-and-basketball-player-charlie-shaffer-passes-away\/19603995\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/special_sections\/acc_tournament\/2008\/09\/24\/3602532\/296221-NC2Clr_w_g-DMID1-5qddgan9l-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"North Carolina Logo\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former UNC football and basketball player Charlie Shaffer died on March 18 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Shaffer was a football player at UNC before a knee injury cut his career short, and he was then a member of Dean Smith&#8217;s first three teams at North Carolina. He went on to become an influential Atlanta lawyer who helped bring the Olympics to the city in 1996. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-unc-football-and-basketball-player-charlie-shaffer-passes-away\/19603995\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-unc-football-and-basketball-player-charlie-shaffer-passes-away\/19603995\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former UNC football and basketball player Charlie Shaffer passes away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC football and basketball player Charlie Shaffer died on March 18 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Shaffer was a football player at UNC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259919","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=1259919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924783,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259919\/revisions\/1924783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}