{"id":236372,"date":"2016-04-29T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=236372"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:28:29","slug":"carolina-panthers-dt-vernon-butler-just-a-big-man-from-a-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=236372","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers DT Vernon Butler just a big man from a small town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before he was Panthers&#8217; first-round pick in the NFL draft, he was \u2018Little Vern&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Butler picked Louisiana Tech over bigger schools for small-town feel<\/p>\n<p>He showed quickness for his size during breakout Senior Bowl performance<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article74796922.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article74796922.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article74796922.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Carolina Panthers DT Vernon Butler just a big man from a small town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he was Panthers&#8217; first-round pick in the NFL draft, he was \u2018Little Vern&#8217; Vernon Butler picked Louisiana Tech over bigger schools for small-town feel He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236372","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\/236372","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=236372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901831,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236372\/revisions\/1901831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}