{"id":784252,"date":"2019-06-15T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=784252"},"modified":"2019-06-15T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:15:15","slug":"a-tale-of-two-halves-nc-courage-and-portland-thorns-battle-to-1-1-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=784252","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two halves &#8211; NC Courage and Portland Thorns battle to 1-1 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-tale-of-two-halves-nc-courage-and-portland-thorns-battle-to-1-1-draw\/18454327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/soccer\/2019\/06\/15\/18454328\/couragespetsmark-DMID1-5j5jsnptl-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC Courage ISI Photos\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Both teams are missing a swath of national team players currently competing in the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup. The Thorns have adjusted well, winning three of four games since the departure of their American internationals. Meanwhile, the Courage have struggled, winning just once in their last five matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-tale-of-two-halves-nc-courage-and-portland-thorns-battle-to-1-1-draw\/18454327\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-tale-of-two-halves-nc-courage-and-portland-thorns-battle-to-1-1-draw\/18454327\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"A tale of two halves - NC Courage and Portland Thorns battle to 1-1 draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both teams are missing a swath of national team players currently competing in the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup. The Thorns have adjusted well, winning three of&#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-784252","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\/784252","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=784252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}