{"id":410398,"date":"2017-01-05T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410398"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:41:11","slug":"behind-the-meme-cam-newton-has-ghost-followers-and-we-are-guilty-as-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=410398","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Meme: Cam Newton has \u2018ghost followers,\u2019 and we are guilty as charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over two months ago, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton alerted the world to the dangers of \u201cGhost Followers\u201d on Instagram \u2013 people who mention a photo in person but failed \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/nfl-blog\/article124763809.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/nfl-blog\/article124763809.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\/nfl-blog\/article124763809.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Behind the Meme: Cam Newton has \u2018ghost followers,\u2019 and we are guilty as charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two months ago, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton alerted the world to the dangers of \u201cGhost Followers\u201d on Instagram \u2013 people who mention a photo&#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-410398","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\/410398","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=410398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904815,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410398\/revisions\/1904815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}