{"id":557440,"date":"2017-12-21T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557440"},"modified":"2017-12-21T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:49:23","slug":"how-the-ball-brothers-ended-up-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557440","title":{"rendered":"How the Ball brothers ended up in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/how-this-lithuanian-outpost-lured-liangelo-and-lamelo-ball\/17203914\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2017\/12\/20\/17203914\/ecbe6fb2-8c43-420e-b1e0-bf70479bf6c7-DMID1-5d6oeewqv-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"How the Ball Brothers Ended Up in Lithuania\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>PRIENAI, Lithuania &#8212; It was only fitting, perhaps, that an intercontinental escapade exhibiting the awesome power of the present day sports-celebrity-industrial complex began with a late-night direct message on Twitter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/how-this-lithuanian-outpost-lured-liangelo-and-lamelo-ball\/17203914\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/how-this-lithuanian-outpost-lured-liangelo-and-lamelo-ball\/17203914\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"How the Ball brothers ended up in Lithuania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRIENAI, Lithuania &#8212; It was only fitting, perhaps, that an intercontinental escapade exhibiting the awesome power of the present day sports-celebrity-industrial complex began with a late-night&#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-557440","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\/557440","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=557440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}