{"id":542419,"date":"2017-09-05T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542419"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:30:57","slug":"chris-thompsons-second-contract-follows-years-of-challenge-and-self-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=542419","title":{"rendered":"Chris Thompson&#8217;s second contract follows years of challenge and self-doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2013 Redskins running back Chris Thompson had a hard time going to bed Monday night. He knew that Tuesday morning he&#8217;d go into work at Redskins Park and sign an extension, giving him his second contract. He was awake. He still felt like he was dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins signed Thompson &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/sep\/5\/chris-thompsons-second-contract-follows-years-chal\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/sep\/5\/chris-thompsons-second-contract-follows-years-chal\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Chris Thompson&#039;s second contract follows years of challenge and self-doubt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2013 Redskins running back Chris Thompson had a hard time going to bed Monday night. He knew that Tuesday morning he&#8217;d go into work at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542419","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=542419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908541,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542419\/revisions\/1908541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}