{"id":556647,"date":"2017-12-15T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556647"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:57:23","slug":"no-20-tennessee-welcomes-its-return-to-national-spotlight-tar-heels-visit-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556647","title":{"rendered":"No. 20 Tennessee welcomes its return to national spotlight; Tar Heels visit Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/no-20-tennessee-welcomes-its-return-to-national-spotlight\/17188393\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2017\/12\/15\/17188393\/media_6cd95a3242c946c4a0fc28a0f1457152-DMID1-5d4baxd5k-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee_Challenging_the_Champions_Basketball_69057\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tennessee typically isn&#8217;t a very hospitable host to defending national champions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/no-20-tennessee-welcomes-its-return-to-national-spotlight\/17188393\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/no-20-tennessee-welcomes-its-return-to-national-spotlight\/17188393\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"No. 20 Tennessee welcomes its return to national spotlight; Tar Heels visit Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee typically isn&#8217;t a very hospitable host to defending national champions. &#8230;read more Source:: WRAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556647","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=556647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921834,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556647\/revisions\/1921834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}