{"id":397630,"date":"2016-11-05T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=397630"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:00:29","slug":"sammy-batten-are-2016-tar-heels-better-than-15-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=397630","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Batten: Are 2016 Tar Heels better than &#8217;15 edition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/sammy-batten-are-tar-heels-better-than-edition\/article_fa53efd4-a3a2-11e6-ab8b-f37bd766c0ec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/c0\/2c0e90c4-a3a3-11e6-ac3c-af9e2b57f2ca\/581e5668d3b1f.image.jpg?resize=300,211\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2013 Being at your best at the end of a season is what every football coach, from the high school level to the professional ranks, hopes his team will achieve. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/sammy-batten-are-tar-heels-better-than-edition\/article_fa53efd4-a3a2-11e6-ab8b-f37bd766c0ec.html\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/sammy-batten-are-tar-heels-better-than-edition\/article_fa53efd4-a3a2-11e6-ab8b-f37bd766c0ec.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sammy Batten: Are 2016 Tar Heels better than &#039;15 edition?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2013 Being at your best at the end of a season is what every football coach, from the high school level to the professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397630","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=397630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922152,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397630\/revisions\/1922152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}