{"id":144236,"date":"2026-08-20T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/20\/states-pour-taxpayer-dollars-into-college-sports-as-athlete-pay-soaring-costs-squeeze-budgets-wral\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:06:04","slug":"states-pour-taxpayer-dollars-into-college-sports-as-athlete-pay-soaring-costs-squeeze-budgets-wral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/20\/states-pour-taxpayer-dollars-into-college-sports-as-athlete-pay-soaring-costs-squeeze-budgets-wral\/","title":{"rendered":"States pour taxpayer dollars into college sports as athlete pay, soaring costs squeeze budgets &#8211; WRAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxNMjNFVGdWc1pYN0FSbXFQVDFXdklnLVdfSEtiT05iUDdUdWhEU0FjSUdFWk5seWJ2Y01CdWNKZVBsOFJobVltdHd6ZHJsYl9Gd1hvRmRDaWZZQV8yRldKTkNGaVBtNlYyOXBOeVFPVmZhZlk3V29NTV9CVkZJNE1meGVwRndnQWdYYUJTSXNzY183UmQzZm0zQlVISzVpVUtpMVBscjE3a05taXdtd1ZxVC1pLTROZ0ItVlZPZEtvYlJCVGlYdjBlOA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">States pour taxpayer dollars into college sports as athlete pay, soaring costs squeeze budgets<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">WRAL<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States pour taxpayer dollars into college sports as athlete pay, soaring costs squeeze budgets&nbsp;&nbsp;WRAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}