{"id":530575,"date":"2017-07-17T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=530575"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:00:02","slug":"raleigh-charlotte-face-off-on-mls-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=530575","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh, Charlotte face off on MLS pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-fc-submits-formal-mls-bid\/16819776\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2017\/06\/15\/16763380\/nc_fc_14_jun_1551-DMID1-5bg9kdpbx-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NCFC battles MLS' Houston Dynamo in Open Cup\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina&#8217;s two biggest cities and biggest sports fan bases will put their soccer support on display this week when Major League Soccer President Mark Abbott visits in his quest to identify the next site for an expansion team. And fans can make their feelings heard at a public rally in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-fc-submits-formal-mls-bid\/16819776\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-fc-submits-formal-mls-bid\/16819776\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Raleigh, Charlotte face off on MLS pitch\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s two biggest cities and biggest sports fan bases will put their soccer support on display this week when Major League Soccer President Mark&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530575","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=530575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}