{"id":995967,"date":"2020-06-17T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=995967"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:14:50","slug":"redskins-to-observe-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=995967","title":{"rendered":"Redskins to observe Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/17\/redskins-observe-juneteenth-holiday\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2020\/06\/11\/offseason_update_kneeling_unity_53914_s1440x958.jpg?490e662726d84b4409caff0ab65abb92b92af294\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins are giving employees the day off Friday to observe Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Redskins coach Ron Rivera penned a letter to all team employees to explain the decision. Washington joins at least six other NFL teams \u2014 the Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, Denver &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/17\/redskins-observe-juneteenth-holiday\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/17\/redskins-observe-juneteenth-holiday\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins to observe Juneteenth\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins are giving employees the day off Friday to observe Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Redskins coach Ron Rivera penned&#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-995967","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\/995967","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=995967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}