{"id":826129,"date":"2019-08-18T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=826129"},"modified":"2019-08-18T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:55:38","slug":"former-longhorns-nfl-rb-benson-dies-in-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=826129","title":{"rendered":"Former Longhorns, NFL RB Benson dies in motorcycle accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cedric-benson-prolific-rusher-at-ut-who-played-in-nfl-dies\/18576914\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/college_football\/2019\/08\/18\/18576978\/5d5994a67a76e-media_d2c5e35ccaf54e15b91a58f15f3fd5f1-DMID1-5jusvqc3e-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Benson_Football_37658\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former NFL running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA and University of Texas history, has died in a motorcycle accident in Texas. He was 36. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cedric-benson-prolific-rusher-at-ut-who-played-in-nfl-dies\/18576914\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/cedric-benson-prolific-rusher-at-ut-who-played-in-nfl-dies\/18576914\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former Longhorns, NFL RB Benson dies in motorcycle accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA and University of Texas history, has died in a motorcycle accident in&#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-826129","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\/826129","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=826129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}