{"id":687074,"date":"2018-09-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=687074"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:00:00","slug":"strength-in-numbers-approach-has-nc-states-defense-exceeding-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=687074","title":{"rendered":"Strength in numbers approach has NC State&#8217;s defense exceeding expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/strength-in-numbers-approach-has-nc-state-s-defense-exceeding-expectations\/17878351\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2018\/09\/01\/17813818\/2018NCSUFBvJMU-41-DMID1-5g9wyf5jn-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NCSU v. James Madison, Sept. 1, 2018\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The biggest question mark surrounding NC State&#8217;s football program heading into the 2018 season was the Wolfpack&#8217;s defense.  NC State had to replace eight starters from a unit that honestly wasn&#8217;t especially elite in 2017.  Expectations were low for 2018, but questions are being answered, writes James Henderson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/strength-in-numbers-approach-has-nc-state-s-defense-exceeding-expectations\/17878351\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/strength-in-numbers-approach-has-nc-state-s-defense-exceeding-expectations\/17878351\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Strength in numbers approach has NC State's defense exceeding expectations\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest question mark surrounding NC State&#8217;s football program heading into the 2018 season was the Wolfpack&#8217;s defense. NC State had to replace eight starters&#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-687074","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\/687074","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=687074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}