{"id":248223,"date":"2016-05-09T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=248223"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:20:00","slug":"never-giving-up-pays-off-for-83-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=248223","title":{"rendered":"Never Giving Up Pays Off for &#8217;83 Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2016\/5\/9\/mens-basketball-dear-mr-president.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; A day that had been 33 years in the making for the 1983 NC State men&#8217;s basketball team finally took place Monday as the legendary national-championship squad made its long-awaited visit to the White House. For a team that knows a lot about making dreams come true, it turned this dream into a reality with a heartfelt letter that read, Dear Mr. President&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2016\/5\/9\/mens-basketball-dear-mr-president.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2016\/5\/9\/mens-basketball-dear-mr-president.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Never Giving Up Pays Off for &#039;83 Pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gopack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; A day that had been 33 years in the making for the 1983 NC State men&#8217;s basketball team finally took place Monday as&#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-248223","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\/248223","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=248223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}