{"id":342023,"date":"2016-07-21T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=342023"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:34:11","slug":"duke-counting-on-balanced-attack-healthy-sirk-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=342023","title":{"rendered":"Duke counting on balanced attack, healthy Sirk in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-counting-on-balanced-attack-healthy-sirk-in-2016\/15868286\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/duke\/2015\/11\/01\/15049877\/15049877-1469041551-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Miami stuns Duke on wild final play\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Duke Blue Devils enter 2016 after finally winning the program&#8217;s first bowl game since 1961. More discussed at Thursday&#8217;s ACC Kickoff, however, was the status of returning starting quarterback Thomas Sirk, who tore his left Achilles tendon in February but recovered to hold his starting spot this fall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-counting-on-balanced-attack-healthy-sirk-in-2016\/15868286\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/duke-counting-on-balanced-attack-healthy-sirk-in-2016\/15868286\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Duke counting on balanced attack, healthy Sirk in 2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke Blue Devils enter 2016 after finally winning the program&#8217;s first bowl game since 1961. More discussed at Thursday&#8217;s ACC Kickoff, however, was the status&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342023","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=342023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920602,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342023\/revisions\/1920602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}