{"id":362569,"date":"2016-08-08T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=362569"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:32:29","slug":"gravley-qa-with-nc-state-swimmer-and-olympic-gold-medalist-ryan-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=362569","title":{"rendered":"Gravley: Q&amp;A with NC State swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Ryan Held"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/q-a-with-nc-state-swimmer-and-olympic-gold-medalist-ryan-held\/15913009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/olympics\/2016\/08\/07\/15910369\/15910373-1470690426-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"APTOPIX Rio Olympics Swimming\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many people around the world are just now learning who NC State&#8217;s Ryan Held is. Sunday night he won his first gold medal swimming with Michael Phelps in the 4X100 relay. The Wolfpack junior then made the media rounds, appearing on the Today show this morning and with Lester Holt on the NBC Nightly news. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/q-a-with-nc-state-swimmer-and-olympic-gold-medalist-ryan-held\/15913009\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/q-a-with-nc-state-swimmer-and-olympic-gold-medalist-ryan-held\/15913009\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Gravley: Q&amp;A with NC State swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Ryan Held\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people around the world are just now learning who NC State&#8217;s Ryan Held is. Sunday night he won his first gold medal swimming with Michael&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362569","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915870,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362569\/revisions\/1915870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}