{"id":1806664,"date":"2023-01-05T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1806664"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:35:52","slug":"football-fans-grapple-with-violent-side-of-a-beloved-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1806664","title":{"rendered":"Football fans grapple with violent side of a beloved sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/5\/football-fans-grapple-with-violent-side-of-beloved\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2023\/01\/05\/Bills_Hamlin_Football_65544_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin&#8217;s on-field collapse after suffering cardiac arrest has forced some fans to yet again confront a truth they&#8217;ve always known but hated to think about: Football, a game with violence in its DNA, can go from exciting and joyous to dark and tragic in a flash. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/5\/football-fans-grapple-with-violent-side-of-beloved\/?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\/2023\/jan\/5\/football-fans-grapple-with-violent-side-of-beloved\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Football fans grapple with violent side of a beloved sport\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin&#8217;s on-field collapse after suffering cardiac arrest has forced some fans to yet again confront a truth they&#8217;ve always known&#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-1806664","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\/1806664","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=1806664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}