{"id":559078,"date":"2017-12-31T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=559078"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:57:26","slug":"panthers-hopes-for-no-2-seed-fading-but-still-could-earn-home-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=559078","title":{"rendered":"Panthers\u2019 hopes for No. 2 seed fading, but still could earn home playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour before kickoff at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Panthers&#8217; hopes for the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs were fading. A quick run-through on how the scenarios \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article192378589.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article192378589.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\/article192378589.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Panthers\u2019 hopes for No. 2 seed fading, but still could earn home playoff game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour before kickoff at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Panthers&#8217; hopes for the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs were fading. A quick run-through&#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-559078","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\/559078","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=559078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898597,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559078\/revisions\/1898597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}