{"id":1927549,"date":"2026-08-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927549"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:44:08","slug":"no-3-duke-heads-west-to-open-season-wednesday-against-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927549","title":{"rendered":"No. 3 Duke Heads West to Open Season Wednesday Against USC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mia Minestrella\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/11\/ws-celebrate16x9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The preseason third-ranked Duke women&#8217;s soccer program hits the road to open the 2026 campaign this week with a pair of contests in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0 The Blue Devils open the season at Southern California Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 9 p.m. (ET) at Rawlinson Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/8\/11\/womens-soccer-no-3-duke-heads-west-to-open-season-wednesday-against-usc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preseason third-ranked Duke women&#8217;s soccer program hits the road to open the 2026 campaign this week with a pair of contests in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927549","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=1927549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927551,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927549\/revisions\/1927551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}