{"id":235452,"date":"2016-04-29T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=235452"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:28:32","slug":"panthers-select-vernon-butler-in-first-round-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=235452","title":{"rendered":"Panthers select Vernon Butler in first round of NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-select-vernon-butler-in-first-round-of-nfl-draft\/15671434\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2008\/09\/24\/3602068\/3602068-1461902915-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Panthers Logo\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Carolina Panthers selected Louisiana Tech defensive tackle Vernon Butler with the 30th overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft Thursday night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-select-vernon-butler-in-first-round-of-nfl-draft\/15671434\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/panthers-select-vernon-butler-in-first-round-of-nfl-draft\/15671434\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers select Vernon Butler in first round of NFL Draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers selected Louisiana Tech defensive tackle Vernon Butler with the 30th overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft Thursday night. &#8230;read more Source:: WRAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235452","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=235452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901838,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235452\/revisions\/1901838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}