{"id":1939082,"date":"2026-10-19T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939082"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:12:16","slug":"former-nc-state-football-coach-longtime-florida-state-assistant-chuck-amato-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939082","title":{"rendered":"Former NC State football coach, longtime Florida State assistant Chuck Amato dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former N.C. State football coach Chuck Amato has died at the age of 80. The school announced on its athletics website that Amato died early Monday at his Raleigh home under hospice care. Amato had previously battled throat cancer and eventually lost his voice. Amato was a defensive assistant unde&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/60722-former-nc-state-football-coach-longtime-florida-state-assistant-chuck-amato-dies-at-80\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former N.C. State football coach Chuck Amato has died at the age of 80. The school announced on its athletics website that Amato died early Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1939083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1939082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939082","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=1939082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939084,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939082\/revisions\/1939084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}