{"id":380905,"date":"2016-08-29T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=380905"},"modified":"2016-08-29T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:26:07","slug":"chasing-the-dream-some-walk-ons-catch-it-most-quit-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=380905","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the dream: Some walk-ons catch it, most quit trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chasing-the-dream-some-walk-ons-catch-it-most-quit-trying\/15965668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/college_football\/2016\/08\/27\/15965668\/15965669-1472473461-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Nebraska Walk Ons Football\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Finally, Brad Simpson can call himself a scholarship player at a big-time football school. It&#8217;s taken him four years, and he&#8217;s run up student-loan debt into the tens of thousands of dollars. With one season to play, he says his walk-on experience at Nebraska has been worth every penny. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chasing-the-dream-some-walk-ons-catch-it-most-quit-trying\/15965668\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/chasing-the-dream-some-walk-ons-catch-it-most-quit-trying\/15965668\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Chasing the dream: Some walk-ons catch it, most quit trying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Brad Simpson can call himself a scholarship player at a big-time football school. It&#8217;s taken him four years, and he&#8217;s run up student-loan debt into&#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-380905","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\/380905","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=380905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}