{"id":997177,"date":"2020-06-18T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=997177"},"modified":"2020-06-18T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:26:13","slug":"univ-of-florida-ends-gator-bait-cheer-cites-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=997177","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of Florida ends &#8216;gator bait&#8217; cheer, cites racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/university-of-florida-ends-gator-bait-cheer-over-race\/19150721\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2020\/06\/18\/19150780\/media_8ad31d5c91f74b30be09ebf2fc7b5457-DMID1-5n7w2rswa-80x57.jpg\" alt=\"Gator_Bait_Chant_Florida_Football_51116\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The University of Florida is ending its \u201cgator bait\u201d cheer at football games and other sports events because of its racial connotations, the school&#8217;s president announced Thursday in a letter making several other similar changes on campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/university-of-florida-ends-gator-bait-cheer-over-race\/19150721\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/university-of-florida-ends-gator-bait-cheer-over-race\/19150721\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Univ. of Florida ends &#039;gator bait&#039; cheer, cites racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida is ending its \u201cgator bait\u201d cheer at football games and other sports events because of its racial connotations, the school&#8217;s president announced&#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-997177","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\/997177","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=997177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}