{"id":364953,"date":"2016-08-10T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=364953"},"modified":"2016-08-10T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:50:43","slug":"versatile-espn-sportscaster-john-saunders-dies-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=364953","title":{"rendered":"Versatile ESPN sportscaster John Saunders dies at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/versatile-espn-sportscaster-john-saunders-dies-at-61\/15917669\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2016\/08\/10\/15917669\/15917670-1470855500-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Obit ESPN Saunders\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>John Saunders, the versatile sportscaster who has hosted ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;The Sports Reporters&#8221; for the last 15 years, has died, the network announced Wednesday. He was 61. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/versatile-espn-sportscaster-john-saunders-dies-at-61\/15917669\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/versatile-espn-sportscaster-john-saunders-dies-at-61\/15917669\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Versatile ESPN sportscaster John Saunders dies at 61\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Saunders, the versatile sportscaster who has hosted ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;The Sports Reporters&#8221; for the last 15 years, has died, the network announced Wednesday. He was&#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-364953","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\/364953","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=364953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}