{"id":1944186,"date":"2026-11-12T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1944186"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:37:33","slug":"despite-slow-starts-the-panthers-and-saints-meet-with-a-chance-to-become-sole-leaders-of-nfc-south-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1944186","title":{"rendered":"Despite slow starts, the Panthers and Saints meet with a chance to become sole leaders of NFC South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the Carolina Panthers\u2019 three-game losing streak, or that the New Orleans Saints dropped five of their first seven games this season. The future is now for both franchises. At stake in Sunday\u2019s game between the Panthers and Saints is sole possession of first place in the NFC South and t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/2f44e-despite-slow-starts-the-panthers-and-saints-meet-with-a-chance-to-become-sole-leaders-of-nfc-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the Carolina Panthers\u2019 three-game losing streak, or that the New Orleans Saints dropped five of their first seven games this season. The future is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944186","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=1944186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944187,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944186\/revisions\/1944187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}