{"id":1777956,"date":"2022-11-10T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1777956"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:46:48","slug":"loverro-alabama-country-boy-dave-butz-became-a-hero-in-the-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1777956","title":{"rendered":"LOVERRO: Alabama country boy Dave Butz became a hero in the nation&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/nov\/10\/dave-butz-was-country-boy-who-became-capitals-hero\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2022\/11\/04\/Obit_Butz_Football_82114--e739a_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When legendary Washington Redskins defensive tackle Dave Butz and I last spoke in March, we talked about his birthplace &#8212; a small Alabama town called Lafayette &#8212; where coincidentally another great champion, heavyweight Joe Louis, was also born. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/nov\/10\/dave-butz-was-country-boy-who-became-capitals-hero\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/nov\/10\/dave-butz-was-country-boy-who-became-capitals-hero\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"LOVERRO: Alabama country boy Dave Butz became a hero in the nation's capital\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When legendary Washington Redskins defensive tackle Dave Butz and I last spoke in March, we talked about his birthplace &#8212; a small Alabama town called&#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-1777956","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\/1777956","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=1777956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}