{"id":401194,"date":"2016-11-19T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=401194"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:55:42","slug":"sammy-batten-close-but-no-cigar-again-for-wolfpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=401194","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Batten: Close, but no cigar again for Wolfpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/sammy-batten-close-but-no-cigar-again-for-wolfpack\/article_8f2fe19a-aeab-11e6-8845-0f96822175a6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/2f\/d2f68898-aeab-11e6-8d48-27c7411a0159\/5830d960bc032.image.jpg?resize=300,219\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>RALEIGH \u2013 N.C. State endured another of those close-but-no-cigar moments Saturday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/sammy-batten-close-but-no-cigar-again-for-wolfpack\/article_8f2fe19a-aeab-11e6-8845-0f96822175a6.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-close-but-no-cigar-again-for-wolfpack\/article_8f2fe19a-aeab-11e6-8845-0f96822175a6.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sammy Batten: Close, but no cigar again for Wolfpack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH \u2013 N.C. State endured another of those close-but-no-cigar moments Saturday. &#8230;read more Source:: Fayetteville Observer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401194","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=401194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913369,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401194\/revisions\/1913369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}