{"id":7979,"date":"2013-12-29T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2013-12-29T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:26:27","slug":"panthers-claim-nfc-south-first-round-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/29\/panthers-claim-nfc-south-first-round-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers claim NFC South, first round bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7039\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7039\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/camnewton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/camnewton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/camnewton-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/camnewton-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Carolina Panthers defeated the Atlanta Falcons 21-20 in Week 17 to claim the NFC South.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina also earned a first-round bye with the win.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the season 1-3, the Panthers rallied with an 11-1 run finishing with a 12-4 record. Entering the season on the hot-seat head coach Ron Rivera is now a coach of the year candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Panthers defeated the Atlanta Falcons 21-20 in Week 17 to claim the NFC South. Carolina also earned a first-round bye with the win. After starting the season 1-3, the Panthers rallied with an 11-1 run finishing with a 12-4 record. Entering the season on the hot-seat head coach Ron Rivera is now a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[126,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}