{"id":362568,"date":"2016-08-08T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=362568"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:34:11","slug":"2016-is-year-of-the-beast-for-blue-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=362568","title":{"rendered":"2016 is &#8216;Year of the Beast&#8217; for Blue Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/2016-is-year-of-the-beast-for-blue-devils\/15913030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/duke\/2014\/11\/15\/14185306\/14185306-1470696147-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Mistake-prone Duke falls to VT, 17-16\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There are bigger expectations within the Duke football program after the Blue Devils finally ended their 54-year bowl game victory drpught last December. The first thing the team did to work toward accomplishing their higher goals at the start of 2016: get stronger. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/2016-is-year-of-the-beast-for-blue-devils\/15913030\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/2016-is-year-of-the-beast-for-blue-devils\/15913030\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"2016 is &#039;Year of the Beast&#039; for Blue Devils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are bigger expectations within the Duke football program after the Blue Devils finally ended their 54-year bowl game victory drpught last December. The first thing&#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-362568","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\/362568","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=362568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918728,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362568\/revisions\/1918728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}