{"id":684994,"date":"2018-09-09T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=684994"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:48:49","slug":"defense-paces-carolina-panthers-in-season-opening-16-8-win-over-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=684994","title":{"rendered":"Defense paces Carolina Panthers in season-opening 16-8 win over Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere, Thomas Davis is smiling. Although the linebacker missed the Carolina Panthers&#8217; season opener Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, his teammates more than picked up the slack defensively. Carolina didn&#8217;t \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article217796010.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article217796010.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article217796010.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Defense paces Carolina Panthers in season-opening 16-8 win over Dallas Cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere, Thomas Davis is smiling. Although the linebacker missed the Carolina Panthers&#8217; season opener Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, his teammates more than picked up the&#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-684994","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\/684994","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=684994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897737,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684994\/revisions\/1897737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}