{"id":923561,"date":"2020-03-11T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=923561"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:18:27","slug":"big-events-banned-ncaa-tells-fans-to-stay-home-over-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=923561","title":{"rendered":"Big events banned, NCAA tells fans to stay home over virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/us-states-race-to-contain-coronavirus-as-cases-near-1-000\/19005375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2020\/03\/11\/19007084\/media_dfb200a3e5154d949e0d3eb9f14a5603-DMID1-5m4n82svu-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Virus_Outbreak-Sports_Basketball_54358\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Undertaking the most sweeping efforts yet to contain the nation&#8217;s coronavirus outbreak, authorities banned large gatherings in the hard-hit Seattle area and San Francisco and closed Seattle&#8217;s schools Wednesday, while the NCAA announced it will hold March Madness basketball games around the country in near-empty arenas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/us-states-race-to-contain-coronavirus-as-cases-near-1-000\/19005375\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/us-states-race-to-contain-coronavirus-as-cases-near-1-000\/19005375\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Big events banned, NCAA tells fans to stay home over virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undertaking the most sweeping efforts yet to contain the nation&#8217;s coronavirus outbreak, authorities banned large gatherings in the hard-hit Seattle area and San Francisco and closed&#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-923561","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\/923561","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=923561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}