{"id":349138,"date":"2016-07-27T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=349138"},"modified":"2016-07-27T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:22:55","slug":"in-letter-roy-cooper-lobbies-big-12-to-invite-ecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=349138","title":{"rendered":"In letter, Roy Cooper lobbies Big 12 to invite ECU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-letter-roy-cooper-lobbies-big-12-to-invite-ecu\/15882556\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ecu\/2015\/11\/28\/15141870\/15141870-1469636079-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"ECU stumbles to Cincy in season finale, 19-16\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sports and politics converged on Wednesday when North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, sent a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby lobbying for East Carolina University to receive an invitation to the Power 5 league. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-letter-roy-cooper-lobbies-big-12-to-invite-ecu\/15882556\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-letter-roy-cooper-lobbies-big-12-to-invite-ecu\/15882556\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"In letter, Roy Cooper lobbies Big 12 to invite ECU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports and politics converged on Wednesday when North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, sent a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby&#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-349138","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\/349138","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=349138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}