{"id":98626,"date":"2015-12-02T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=98626"},"modified":"2015-12-02T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:01:32","slug":"nfls-best-defender-could-again-be-panthers-lb-luke-kuechly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=98626","title":{"rendered":"NFL\u2019s best defender could again be Panthers LB Luke Kuechly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite missing three games, Carolina&#8217;s Luke Kuechly is in NFL Defensive Player of Year race<\/p>\n<p>His main competition is from Houston&#8217;s J.J. Watt and another Carolina Panther, CB Josh Norman<\/p>\n<p>Kuechly is performing so well he&#8217;s off the ratings scale used by analytics service Pro Football Focus<\/p>\n<p> \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article47598370.html#storylink=rss\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article47598370.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article47598370.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NFL\u2019s best defender could again be Panthers LB Luke Kuechly\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite missing three games, Carolina&#8217;s Luke Kuechly is in NFL Defensive Player of Year race His main competition is from Houston&#8217;s J.J. Watt and another&#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-98626","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\/98626","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=98626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}