{"id":392149,"date":"2016-10-11T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=392149"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:42:16","slug":"boycottnfl-is-qb-colin-kaepernicks-protest-the-reason-nfl-ratings-are-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=392149","title":{"rendered":"#BoycottNFL? Is QB Colin Kaepernick\u2019s protest the reason NFL ratings are falling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is saying TV ratings are down this season because of a hotly contested presidential election. Monday night, for example, ESPN received a 6.5 overnight rating for the Tampa \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/panther-tracks\/article107486152.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/panther-tracks\/article107486152.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/panther-tracks\/article107486152.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"#BoycottNFL? Is QB Colin Kaepernick\u2019s protest the reason NFL ratings are falling?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is saying TV ratings are down this season because of a hotly contested presidential election. Monday night, for example, ESPN received a 6.5 overnight&#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-392149","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\/392149","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=392149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904972,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392149\/revisions\/1904972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}