{"id":540828,"date":"2017-08-19T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=540828"},"modified":"2017-08-19T19:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T23:42:18","slug":"nc-courage-eclipses-washington-spirit-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=540828","title":{"rendered":"NC Courage eclipses Washington Spirit, 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-courage-eclipses-washington-spirit-2-0\/16892410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2017\/04\/22\/16659833\/nc_courage_22_apr_1437-uid14929149737831-DMID1-5btjhq3w2-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC Courage win home opener over Portland, 1-0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Saturday afternoon at a sunbaked WakeMed Soccer Park, the visiting Washington Spirit sought to blot out the bright radiance of the NWSL-leading North Carolina Courage, who came in sitting five points atop the league table. Alas, like Icarus, the Spirit flew too close to the sun, as a blazing first half quickly melted away in the summertime humidity, eventually collapsing into a 2-0 Courage victory. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-courage-eclipses-washington-spirit-2-0\/16892410\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-courage-eclipses-washington-spirit-2-0\/16892410\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NC Courage eclipses Washington Spirit, 2-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon at a sunbaked WakeMed Soccer Park, the visiting Washington Spirit sought to blot out the bright radiance of the NWSL-leading North Carolina Courage, who&#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-540828","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\/540828","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=540828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}