{"id":534969,"date":"2017-07-25T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=534969"},"modified":"2017-07-25T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T01:40:09","slug":"damage-found-in-almost-all-donated-brains-of-former-nfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=534969","title":{"rendered":"Damage found in almost all donated brains of former NFL players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 90 percent of brains examined from deceased professional football players showed signs of disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System.<\/p>\n<p>Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/25\/damage-found-almost-all-donated-brains-former-nfl-\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/25\/damage-found-almost-all-donated-brains-former-nfl-\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Damage found in almost all donated brains of former NFL players\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 90 percent of brains examined from deceased professional football players showed signs of disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of&#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-534969","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\/534969","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=534969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}