{"id":9686,"date":"2026-03-11T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/11\/nwsl-to-award-its-18th-franchise-this-year-with-team-expected-to-begin-play-in-2028-spectrum-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:08:00","slug":"nwsl-to-award-its-18th-franchise-this-year-with-team-expected-to-begin-play-in-2028-spectrum-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/11\/nwsl-to-award-its-18th-franchise-this-year-with-team-expected-to-begin-play-in-2028-spectrum-news\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL to award its 18th franchise this year, with team expected to begin play in 2028 &#8211; Spectrum News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxPVS1fRldNNl9VOXJPSUkteXh0ZHhqOG16YVZRYXFZQmlCNF9XYm9kOUZMelpkZlBsdkV2eWJxNFhiUkIzb0QzRU4xSTZJRkVfYmRFZTVHTzIxRkc0ckc0OC1NTE5yUE1EemJpN1NTN3Z0T28yTFhBRWN2UURtTjlESndaZUo2NjZsS1E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">NWSL to award its 18th franchise this year, with team expected to begin play in 2028<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Spectrum News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NWSL to award its 18th franchise this year, with team expected to begin play in 2028&nbsp;&nbsp;Spectrum News<\/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-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","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=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}