{"id":211909,"date":"2016-04-11T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=211909"},"modified":"2016-04-11T17:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:46:51","slug":"this-nfl-draft-prospect-was-cut-from-his-8th-grade-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=211909","title":{"rendered":"This NFL draft prospect was cut from his 8th-grade football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame defensive end Romeo Okwara moved to America from Nigeria at age 10<\/p>\n<p>The two things he wanted to try in his new hometown were McDonald&#8217;s and football<\/p>\n<p>After being cut from his 8th-grade team, Okwara grew into an NFL draft prospect<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article71225997.html#storylink=rss\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article71225997.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article71225997.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"This NFL draft prospect was cut from his 8th-grade football team\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame defensive end Romeo Okwara moved to America from Nigeria at age 10 The two things he wanted to try in his new hometown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211909","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\/211909","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}