{"id":689104,"date":"2018-10-04T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=689104"},"modified":"2018-10-04T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:47:12","slug":"athletes-across-the-spectrum-criticize-sports-for-getting-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=689104","title":{"rendered":"Athletes across the spectrum criticize sports for getting soft"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a sports cliche that older athletes, no matter their era, love to tell younger players that their sport has gone soft. But with modern leagues scrambling to take collisions, crashes and hits out of games, today’s athletes increasingly find themselves agreeing with the old-timers.<\/p>\n

From widespread criticism of the …<\/p>\n

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Source:: Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a sports cliche that older athletes, no matter their era, love to tell younger players that their sport has gone soft. But with modern…<\/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-689104","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\/689104","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=689104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}