{"id":998019,"date":"2020-06-19T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=998019"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:19:03","slug":"george-preston-marshall-redskins-founding-owner-statue-removed-outside-rfk-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=998019","title":{"rendered":"George Preston Marshall, Redskins founding owner, statue removed outside RFK Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/19\/george-preston-marshall-redskins-founding-owner-st\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2008\/08\/01\/20080801-010909-pic-405157871_s1024x929.jpg?e6b97f173126e09830299170e3c1f03009a90569\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The statue of former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, who nicknamed his team the Redskins and was the last NFL owner to integrate his franchise, was removed Friday from outside the team&#8217;s former home at RFK Stadium in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Events DC, the government agency who oversees RFK Stadium, said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/19\/george-preston-marshall-redskins-founding-owner-st\/?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\/19\/george-preston-marshall-redskins-founding-owner-st\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"George Preston Marshall, Redskins founding owner, statue removed outside RFK Stadium\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statue of former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, who nicknamed his team the Redskins and was the last NFL owner to integrate his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998019","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=998019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425678,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998019\/revisions\/1425678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}