{"id":1862942,"date":"2024-11-07T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1862942"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:42:17","slug":"dean-smith-is-a-north-carolina-icon-in-his-native-emporia-kansas-he-remains-an-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1862942","title":{"rendered":"Dean Smith is a North Carolina icon. In his native Emporia, Kansas, he remains an ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time since Dean Smith\u2019s boyhood years in Emporia, Kansas, but in some ways his hometown looks like it must\u2019ve looked when he grew up there. Commercial Street still looks straight out of the 1940s or 50s, just with a few more empty storefronts. Around a corner the old Emporia High School is the same as it ever was from the outside \u2014 a stately and beautiful three-story brick building; a classic old school \u2014 though the inside has long been abandoned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/dean-smith-is-a-north-carolina-icon-in-his-native-emporia-kansas-he-remains-an-ideal\/ar-AA1tGFA9?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time since Dean Smith\u2019s boyhood years in Emporia, Kansas, but in some ways his hometown looks like it must\u2019ve looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1862944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862942","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=1862942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862946,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862942\/revisions\/1862946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}