{"id":695792,"date":"2018-12-23T23:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695792"},"modified":"2018-12-23T23:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:27:40","slug":"saints-narrowly-upend-steelers-and-take-top-nfc-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695792","title":{"rendered":"Saints narrowly upend Steelers and take top NFC seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/saints-narrowly-upend-steelers-and-take-top-nfc-seed\/18083502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2018\/12\/23\/18083503\/5c20314a89bbf-media_2d19bc104b634fcfab2c5864078ce339-DMID1-5h8g8l467-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Steelers_Saints_Football_35491\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Drew Brees found a receiver who hadn&#8217;t played most of the season to sustain a late touchdown drive. The Saints&#8217; defense found a way to force two fumbles in the fourth quarter. And New Orleans&#8217; punt-return unit stopped a fake punt less than a yard short of a conversion that might have helped Pittsburgh protect a late lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/saints-narrowly-upend-steelers-and-take-top-nfc-seed\/18083502\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/saints-narrowly-upend-steelers-and-take-top-nfc-seed\/18083502\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Saints narrowly upend Steelers and take top NFC seed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Brees found a receiver who hadn&#8217;t played most of the season to sustain a late touchdown drive. The Saints&#8217; defense found a way to force&#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-695792","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\/695792","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=695792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}