{"id":557231,"date":"2017-12-19T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557231"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:58:16","slug":"panthers-playoff-primer-how-carolina-could-be-no-2-seed-or-miss-playoffs-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557231","title":{"rendered":"Panthers playoff primer: How Carolina could be No. 2 seed \u2013 or miss playoffs entirely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it&#8217;s not as confusing as last week. But the Panthers still have a lot on the line heading into Sunday&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay, the last home regular-season \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article190566034.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article190566034.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article190566034.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers playoff primer: How Carolina could be No. 2 seed \u2013 or miss playoffs entirely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it&#8217;s not as confusing as last week. But the Panthers still have a lot on the line heading into Sunday&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557231","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\/557231","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=557231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898699,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557231\/revisions\/1898699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}