{"id":442115,"date":"2017-03-02T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=442115"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:47:15","slug":"kestrel-heights-focused-ready-for-basketball-semis-despite-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=442115","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel Heights &#8216;focused &amp; ready&#8217; for basketball semis despite closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/kestrel-heights-focused-ready-for-basketball-semis-despite-closure\/16561509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/mens_basketball\/2017\/02\/28\/16558035\/16558035-1488476542-uid14884765468272-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Boys Basketball: Whiteville vs. Kestrel Heights (Feb 28,  2017)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The State Board of Education voted on Thursday to close the high school at Kestrel Heights after it was discovered 40 percent of graduates received diplomas they did not earn over the last eight years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/kestrel-heights-focused-ready-for-basketball-semis-despite-closure\/16561509\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/kestrel-heights-focused-ready-for-basketball-semis-despite-closure\/16561509\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Kestrel Heights &#039;focused &amp; ready&#039; for basketball semis despite closure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Board of Education voted on Thursday to close the high school at Kestrel Heights after it was discovered 40 percent of graduates received diplomas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-high-school-sports","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-92-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442115","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=442115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916954,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442115\/revisions\/1916954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}