{"id":1932274,"date":"2026-09-11T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932274"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:28:31","slug":"bears-coach-ben-johnson-returns-to-north-carolina-for-week-1-matchup-with-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932274","title":{"rendered":"Bears coach Ben Johnson returns to North Carolina for Week 1 matchup with the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson returns to familiar territory in Week 1. Johnson leads the Bears into North Carolina for their season opener against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. The 40-year-old Johnson grew up in Asheville and was a walk-on quarterback at the University of North Carolina, ear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/06403-bears-coach-ben-johnson-returns-to-north-carolina-for-week-1-matchup-with-the-panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson returns to familiar territory in Week 1. Johnson leads the Bears into North Carolina for their season opener against the Carolina&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1932274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/1932274","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=1932274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932275,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932274\/revisions\/1932275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}