{"id":1931572,"date":"2026-09-06T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931572"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:54:12","slug":"a-gritty-late-surge-lifts-the-us-past-italy-55-52-in-its-toughest-world-cup-test-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931572","title":{"rendered":"A gritty late surge lifts the US past Italy 55-52 in its toughest World Cup test in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 The United States faced its stiffest challenge in nearly two decades in the women&#8217;s FIBA World Cup and escaped with a win over Italy thanks to a few timely baskets late and a key defensive play by Chelsea Gray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/51d15-a-gritty-late-surge-lifts-the-us-past-italy-55-52-in-its-toughest-world-cup-test-in-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 The United States faced its stiffest challenge in nearly two decades in the women&#8217;s FIBA World Cup and escaped with a win over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1931573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1931572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931572","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=1931572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931574,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931572\/revisions\/1931574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}