{"id":1925378,"date":"2026-07-28T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1925378"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:28:03","slug":"he-can-touch-everybody-roy-williams-describes-why-america-loves-michael-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1925378","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He can touch everybody\u2019: Roy Williams describes why America loves Michael Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Jordan sunk a game-winning shot, coining his signature tongue-out look, from the wing of the New Orleans Superdome at the 1982 national championship game, clinching NBA title after NBA title and had his face plastered on Gatorade cartons and billboards, Williams said a defining moment happened in Jordan\u2019s life as a freshman.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/07\/28\/he-can-touch-everybody---roy-williams-describes-why-america-loves-mj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click here to read more<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Jordan sunk a game-winning shot, coining his signature tongue-out look, from the wing of the New Orleans Superdome at the 1982 national championship game,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1925379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925378","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=1925378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925380,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925378\/revisions\/1925380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}