{"id":378082,"date":"2016-08-23T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=378082"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:43:03","slug":"newton-catches-heat-amid-race-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=378082","title":{"rendered":"Newton catches heat amid race remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/newton-catches-heat-amid-race-remarks\/15954376\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2015\/09\/27\/14930697\/14930697-1443400666-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Cam Newton Pic-Post Saints\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Panthers&#8217; quarterback and 2015 MVP Cam Newton is no stranger to controversy, and after his interview with Zach Baron, he is seemingly embracing his old friend with open and loving arms.  However, the portion of the interview that drew the ire of many fans, especially African-American fans, were his comments on racism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/newton-catches-heat-amid-race-remarks\/15954376\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/newton-catches-heat-amid-race-remarks\/15954376\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Newton catches heat amid race remarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers&#8217; quarterback and 2015 MVP Cam Newton is no stranger to controversy, and after his interview with Zach Baron, he is seemingly embracing his old friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378082","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=378082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905074,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378082\/revisions\/1905074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}