{"id":979339,"date":"2020-05-31T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=979339"},"modified":"2020-05-31T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T22:17:36","slug":"athletes-outpouring-on-civil-unrest-rekindles-kaepernick-debate-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=979339","title":{"rendered":"Athletes&#8217; Outpouring on Civil Unrest Rekindles Kaepernick Debate in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/athletes-outpouring-on-civil-unrest-rekindles-kaepernick-debate-in-nfl\/19123157\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2017\/05\/12\/16697871\/colin-kaepernick-49ers-starting-quarterback-chip-kelly-DMID1-5bnffkcjs-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Kaepernick\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The outbreak of civil unrest initiated by the death of George Floyd has brought about an unusual outpouring from players, coaches and officials in the NFL, which has wrestled publicly with issues of race and racism more than other leagues. In some instances, however, long-standing disputes about whether the league takes the issue seriously enough have been rekindled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/athletes-outpouring-on-civil-unrest-rekindles-kaepernick-debate-in-nfl\/19123157\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/athletes-outpouring-on-civil-unrest-rekindles-kaepernick-debate-in-nfl\/19123157\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Athletes&#039; Outpouring on Civil Unrest Rekindles Kaepernick Debate in NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak of civil unrest initiated by the death of George Floyd has brought about an unusual outpouring from players, coaches and officials in the NFL,&#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-979339","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\/979339","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=979339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}