{"id":1507713,"date":"2021-11-25T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1507713"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:28:55","slug":"josh-downs-leans-on-faith-and-family-during-breakout-season-at-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1507713","title":{"rendered":"Josh Downs leans on faith and family during breakout season at UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/josh-downs-leans-on-faith-and-family-during-breakout-season-at-unc\/20001617\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2021\/11\/25\/20001598\/JOSH_DOWNS_STILL00000143-DMID1-5t062dhnx-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Downs reflects on growing up in a football family and choosing UNC\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This season Josh Downs has emerged as one of the top receivers in the country.  His success should come as no surprise when you consider his dad Gary Downs and uncle Dre Bly both played in the NFL.  Downs sits down with WRAL&#8217;s Pat Welter to talk about choosing UNC over his dad&#8217;s alma mater, NC State, and why faith is so important to him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/josh-downs-leans-on-faith-and-family-during-breakout-season-at-unc\/20001617\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/josh-downs-leans-on-faith-and-family-during-breakout-season-at-unc\/20001617\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Josh Downs leans on faith and family during breakout season at UNC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season Josh Downs has emerged as one of the top receivers in the country. His success should come as no surprise when you consider his&#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-1507713","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\/1507713","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=1507713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}