{"id":692172,"date":"2018-11-15T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=692172"},"modified":"2018-11-15T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:06:28","slug":"65-years-ago-what-it-was-was-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=692172","title":{"rendered":"65 years ago: What It Was, Was Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/colleges\/video\/17998304\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/2018\/11\/15\/17998305\/6248-what_it_was-DMID1-5gteeboee-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"From the Vault: What It Was, Was Football\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Andy Griffith&#8217;s famous comedy monologue was released 65 years ago this week. It was a WRAL sports tradition for longtime WRAL photographer Jay Jennings to pair Griffith&#8217;s words with area college football video. On Fox 50 Game Night, we dusted off an early 90s version of &#8216;What It Was, Was Football&#8217; and showed it Coach Steve Logan for the first time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/colleges\/video\/17998304\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/colleges\/video\/17998304\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"65 years ago: What It Was, Was Football\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Griffith&#8217;s famous comedy monologue was released 65 years ago this week. It was a WRAL sports tradition for longtime WRAL photographer Jay Jennings to&#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-692172","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\/692172","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=692172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}