{"id":1871816,"date":"2025-01-22T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1871816"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:47:55","slug":"uncs-ben-johnson-new-bears-coach-stole-nc-state-girl-from-country-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1871816","title":{"rendered":"UNC&#8217;s Ben Johnson, new Bears coach, &#8220;stole&#8221; NC State girl from country singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNC grad Ben Johnson recently made headlines for snagging the head coaching position for the Chicago Bears. While his journey from offensive coordinator to head coach is impressive, the story of how he met his wife, Jessica, is just as wild \u2014  and it even involves a country music star who also played for UNC. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/nfl\/who-is-chicago-bears-hc-ben-johnsons-wife-jessica-the-crazy-story-of-how-they-met\/ar-AA1xFGRI?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC grad Ben Johnson recently made headlines for snagging the head coaching position for the Chicago Bears. While his journey from offensive coordinator to head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1871819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871816","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\/1871816","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=1871816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871820,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871816\/revisions\/1871820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1871819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}