{"id":1722718,"date":"2022-07-23T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1722718"},"modified":"2022-07-23T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T21:48:22","slug":"drake-thomas-and-nc-state-defense-embracing-the-pressure-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1722718","title":{"rendered":"Drake Thomas and NC State defense embracing the pressure in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/drake-thomas-and-nc-state-defense-embracing-the-pressure-in-2022\/20387013\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2022\/07\/23\/20387014\/drake_thomas_still00000010-DMID1-5vnjsbqpr-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Drake Thomas after beating Syracuse in 2021.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Drake Thomas was named first team all ACC and lead the team in tackles in 2021.  Now he and the NC State defense are embracing expectations and are ready to win the ACC. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/drake-thomas-and-nc-state-defense-embracing-the-pressure-in-2022\/20387013\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/drake-thomas-and-nc-state-defense-embracing-the-pressure-in-2022\/20387013\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Drake Thomas and NC State defense embracing the pressure in 2022\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake Thomas was named first team all ACC and lead the team in tackles in 2021. Now he and the NC State defense are embracing&#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-1722718","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\/1722718","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=1722718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}