{"id":580993,"date":"2018-02-19T22:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=580993"},"modified":"2018-02-19T22:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:37:43","slug":"working-hard-to-make-family-proud-izabela-nicoletti-starring-for-raleighs-neuse-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=580993","title":{"rendered":"Working hard to make family proud, Izabela Nicoletti starring for Raleigh&#8217;s Neuse Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/working-hard-to-make-family-proud-izabela-nicoletti-starring-for-raleigh-s-neuse-christian\/17354260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.highschoolot.com\/asset\/content\/womens_basketball\/2017\/11\/25\/17141571\/gbb-cary_vs_neuse_christian-nov_25_2017-74-DMID1-5dugbskq8-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Girls Basketball: Neuse Christian Academy vs. Cary (Nov. 25, 201\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The first time Izabela Nicoletti set foot in the United States, the land of the free was an instant challenge. &#8220;I could not say my ABC&#8217;s by that time. I could not count 1-2-3 at that time,&#8221; she recalls. For five months, Nicoletti ventured to the U.S. with the SCAR Academy, but she was living with Brazilians and couldn&#8217;t speak much English. It was tough, at first. But basketball helped Nicoletti adjust, and then it became her big break. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/working-hard-to-make-family-proud-izabela-nicoletti-starring-for-raleigh-s-neuse-christian\/17354260\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/working-hard-to-make-family-proud-izabela-nicoletti-starring-for-raleigh-s-neuse-christian\/17354260\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Working hard to make family proud, Izabela Nicoletti starring for Raleigh&#039;s Neuse Christian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School OT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Izabela Nicoletti set foot in the United States, the land of the free was an instant challenge. &#8220;I could not say my ABC&#8217;s&#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-580993","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\/580993","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=580993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}