{"id":548250,"date":"2017-10-14T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=548250"},"modified":"2017-10-14T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T01:57:52","slug":"nc-courage-drops-nwsl-title-to-portland-thorns-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=548250","title":{"rendered":"NC Courage drops NWSL title to Portland Thorns, 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-courage-drops-nwsl-title-to-portland-thorns-1-0\/17017390\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2017\/10\/14\/17017392\/thornscelebration-DMID1-5cft0vuem-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Thorns FC celebrate their National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Championship win by defeating North Caroline Courage 1-0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When used idiomatically, a &#8220;junkyard dog&#8221; denotes a person with an especially combative demeanor. In the weeks leading up to Saturday&#8217;s NWSL championship final, North Carolina Courage manager Paul Riley had taken to branding his squad as &#8220;junkyard dogs,&#8221; a paean to their self-ascribed tenacity and fight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-courage-drops-nwsl-title-to-portland-thorns-1-0\/17017390\/\" 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-drops-nwsl-title-to-portland-thorns-1-0\/17017390\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NC Courage drops NWSL title to Portland Thorns, 1-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When used idiomatically, a &#8220;junkyard dog&#8221; denotes a person with an especially combative demeanor. In the weeks leading up to Saturday&#8217;s NWSL championship final, North Carolina&#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-548250","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\/548250","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=548250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}