{"id":636981,"date":"2018-05-30T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=636981"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:19:29","slug":"whats-the-best-response-to-players-anthem-protests-roger-goodell-needs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=636981","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the best response to players\u2019 anthem protests? Roger Goodell needs to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Carolina Panther receiver Torrey Smith talked Monday about taking a knee during the national anthem from a player&#8217;s perspective, and he absolutely got it right. This feels ancient now. \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article212237434.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article212237434.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\/spt-columns-blogs\/tom-sorensen-blog\/article212237434.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"What\u2019s the best response to players\u2019 anthem protests? Roger Goodell needs to know.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Carolina Panther receiver Torrey Smith talked Monday about taking a knee during the national anthem from a player&#8217;s perspective, and he absolutely got it right&#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-636981","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\/636981","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=636981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904166,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636981\/revisions\/1904166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}