{"id":1939156,"date":"2026-10-20T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939156"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:52:16","slug":"wnba-finals-and-the-national-anthem-the-rules-and-why-some-teams-stay-on-the-court-and-others-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939156","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals and the national anthem: The rules and why some teams stay on the court and others don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans who don\u2019t usually watch the WNBA might be asking why the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream were not on the court during the playing of the national anthem ahead of Game 1 or 2 of the league&#8217;s championship series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/b4c15-wnba-finals-and-the-national-anthem-the-rules-and-why-some-teams-stay-on-the-court-and-others-dont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans who don\u2019t usually watch the WNBA might be asking why the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream were not on the court during the playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1939157,"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-1939156","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\/1939156","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=1939156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939158,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939156\/revisions\/1939158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}