{"id":1312649,"date":"2021-05-22T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1312649"},"modified":"2021-05-22T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:16:19","slug":"a-long-time-coming-eased-capacity-restrictions-lets-thousands-cheer-on-nc-courage-at-regular-season-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1312649","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A long time coming.&#8217; Eased capacity restrictions lets thousands cheer on NC Courage at regular season home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-time-coming-eased-capacity-restrictions-lets-thousands-cheer-on-nc-courage-at-regular-season-home-opener\/19691682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2021\/05\/22\/19691691\/121740-aaron-DMID1-5qy5ha5j1-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of soccer fans return to see NC Courage \"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Thousands of NC Courage fans returned to Sahlen&#8217;s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park on Saturday night for the league&#8217;s regular season home opener. It&#8217;s the largest crowd since the team won the NWSL Championship nearly two years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-time-coming-eased-capacity-restrictions-lets-thousands-cheer-on-nc-courage-at-regular-season-home-opener\/19691682\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-time-coming-eased-capacity-restrictions-lets-thousands-cheer-on-nc-courage-at-regular-season-home-opener\/19691682\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"&#039;A long time coming.&#039; Eased capacity restrictions lets thousands cheer on NC Courage at regular season home opener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of NC Courage fans returned to Sahlen&#8217;s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park on Saturday night for the league&#8217;s regular season home opener. It&#8217;s the largest&#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-1312649","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\/1312649","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=1312649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}