{"id":556953,"date":"2017-12-17T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556953"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:20:46","slug":"vikings-cruise-past-bengals-34-7-to-clinch-nfc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556953","title":{"rendered":"Vikings cruise past Bengals 34-7 to clinch NFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vikings-cruise-past-bengals-34-7-to-clinch-nfc-north\/17195705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/panthers\/2017\/12\/17\/17195519\/media_214662ac3e0a46849f2e91da5f1d0bdc-DMID1-5d546eq1h-80x55.jpg\" alt=\"Bengals_Vikings_Football_81205\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Eric Kendricks had an interception return for a touchdown, Case Keenum passed for 236 yards and two scores, and the Minnesota Vikings clinched the NFC North title with a 34-7 victory over the depleted and disinterested Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vikings-cruise-past-bengals-34-7-to-clinch-nfc-north\/17195705\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/vikings-cruise-past-bengals-34-7-to-clinch-nfc-north\/17195705\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Vikings cruise past Bengals 34-7 to clinch NFC North\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Kendricks had an interception return for a touchdown, Case Keenum passed for 236 yards and two scores, and the Minnesota Vikings clinched the NFC North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556953","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904313,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556953\/revisions\/1904313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}