{"id":1932444,"date":"2026-09-12T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932444"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T02:04:31","slug":"sheppard-shines-again-leads-duke-to-2-0-start-after-31-27-win-over-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1932444","title":{"rendered":"Sheppard shines again, leads Duke to 2-0 start after 31-27 win over Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore running back Nate Sheppard tallied three total touchdowns, including two receiving scores, to help power the Blue Devils (2-0) to their 11th one-score victory under head coach Manny Diaz.  Sheppard also eclipsed 100 yards for a third straight game, with 147 rushing yards on 24 carries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/sheppard-shines-again-leads-duke-2-0-start-win-over-illinois-september-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore running back Nate Sheppard tallied three total touchdowns, including two receiving scores, to help power the Blue Devils (2-0) to their 11th one-score victory under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1932445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1932444","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\/1932444","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=1932444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932446,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932444\/revisions\/1932446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1932444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1932444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1932444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}