{"id":1892446,"date":"2026-07-15T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892446"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:16:49","slug":"isaiah-shirley-at-the-acc-kickoff-we-want-to-be-the-backbone-of-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892446","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Shirley at the ACC Kickoff: \u201cWe Want to Be the Backbone of This Team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State defensive end Isaiah Shirley met with the media Wednesday at the 2026 ACC Kickoff in Charlotte, where he discussed his decision to stay with the Wolfpack, the confidence surrounding the defense, his expanded leadership role, and what it takes to prepare for an ACC season. One theme surfaced throughout the interview. Shirley believes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/15\/isaiah-shirley-2026-acc-kickoff-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State defensive end Isaiah Shirley met with the media Wednesday at the 2026 ACC Kickoff in Charlotte, where he discussed his decision to stay with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892446","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892447,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892446\/revisions\/1892447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}