{"id":1930706,"date":"2026-09-01T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930706"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:14:36","slug":"david-shumate-sits-down-with-luke-mergott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930706","title":{"rendered":"David Shumate Sits Down with Luke Mergott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Duke linebacker Luke Mergott and defensive coordinator Jonathan Patke celebrated the Blue Devils' first outright ACC Championship since 1962 as Mergott holds the ball from his game-winning interception versus No. 16 Virginia.\" src=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2025\/12\/10\/20251206_FB_ACC_Championship_JF-373_4uAtd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Shumate, the play-by-play voice for Duke football, recently sat down with linebacker Luke Mergott for an interview for the Duke Football Yearbook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/9\/1\/football-david-shumate-sits-down-with-luke-mergott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Shumate, the play-by-play voice for Duke football, recently sat down with linebacker Luke Mergott for an interview for the Duke Football Yearbook. Click here to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1930707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930706","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\/1930706","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=1930706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930708,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930706\/revisions\/1930708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}