{"id":1861722,"date":"2024-10-30T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1861722"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:44:54","slug":"college-basketball-king-of-all-sports-in-nc-should-be-special-again-in-the-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1861722","title":{"rendered":"College basketball, king of all sports in NC, should be special again in the Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College basketball might not be as popular or compelling as it was during its 1970s or 80s or 90s heyday \u2014 here, or anywhere \u2014 but it\u2019s hardly just a one-month pastime in North Carolina. In North Carolina, it remains part religion or maybe part cult. It determines tribal affiliation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/college-basketball-king-of-all-sports-in-nc-should-be-special-again-in-the-triangle\/ar-AA1tbN0I?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College basketball might not be as popular or compelling as it was during its 1970s or 80s or 90s heyday \u2014 here, or anywhere \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1861724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861722","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=1861722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861726,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861722\/revisions\/1861726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}