{"id":189869,"date":"2016-03-24T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=189869"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:01:13","slug":"payne-confident-tar-heels-balance-fun-focus-at-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=189869","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Confident Tar Heels balance fun, focus at Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/confident-tar-heels-balance-fun-focus-at-sweet-16\/15598313\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2016\/03\/20\/15575283\/15575283-1458854403-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"UNC vs Providence\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina is balancing fun and focus in the Sweet 16. The mix is part confidence and part natural personality for the one-seeded Tar Heels. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/confident-tar-heels-balance-fun-focus-at-sweet-16\/15598313\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/confident-tar-heels-balance-fun-focus-at-sweet-16\/15598313\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Payne: Confident Tar Heels balance fun, focus at Sweet 16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is balancing fun and focus in the Sweet 16. The mix is part confidence and part natural personality for the one-seeded Tar Heels. &#8230;read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/189869","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=189869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922236,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189869\/revisions\/1922236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}