{"id":442302,"date":"2017-03-02T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=442302"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:47:14","slug":"despite-academic-scandal-kestrel-heights-basketball-team-remains-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=442302","title":{"rendered":"Despite academic scandal, Kestrel Heights basketball team remains positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/despite-academic-scandal-kestrel-heights-basketball-team-remains-positive\/16562367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/mens_basketball\/2017\/02\/28\/16558044\/16558044-1488510304-uid14885103087163-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Boys Basketball: Whiteville vs. Kestrel Heights (Feb 28,  2017)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The State Board of Education voted to close Kestrel Heights after academic irregularities were discovered, but the boys basketball team remains positive ahead of Saturday&#8217;s state semifinal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/despite-academic-scandal-kestrel-heights-basketball-team-remains-positive\/16562367\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/despite-academic-scandal-kestrel-heights-basketball-team-remains-positive\/16562367\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Despite academic scandal, Kestrel Heights basketball team remains positive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Board of Education voted to close Kestrel Heights after academic irregularities were discovered, but the boys basketball team remains positive ahead of Saturday&#8217;s state&#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-442302","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\/442302","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=442302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916953,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442302\/revisions\/1916953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}