{"id":893903,"date":"2020-01-27T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=893903"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:52:33","slug":"wake-forest-man-treasures-memento-from-chance-meeting-with-kobe-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=893903","title":{"rendered":"Wake Forest man treasures memento from chance meeting with Kobe Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/wake-forest-man-treasures-memento-from-chance-meeting-with-kobe-bryant\/18912944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/asset\/news\/local\/2020\/01\/27\/18912957\/kobe2-DMID1-5ln5thany-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"The autographed shoes that Kobe Bryant shared with a Triangle fan, Stephen Tyson. \"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When Stephen Tyson met his idol by chance at a restaurant in Texas in 2002 at age 19, Bryant had no idea Tyson was dealing with cystic fibrosis and was desperately in need of a double lung transplant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/wake-forest-man-treasures-memento-from-chance-meeting-with-kobe-bryant\/18912944\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/wake-forest-man-treasures-memento-from-chance-meeting-with-kobe-bryant\/18912944\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Wake Forest man treasures memento from chance meeting with Kobe Bryant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Stephen Tyson met his idol by chance at a restaurant in Texas in 2002 at age 19, Bryant had no idea Tyson was dealing with&#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-893903","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\/893903","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=893903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}