{"id":114511,"date":"2018-07-16T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114511"},"modified":"2018-07-16T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:07:04","slug":"dr-plays-the-finals-of-the-pan-am-cup-but-loses-to-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/16\/dr-plays-the-finals-of-the-pan-am-cup-but-loses-to-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"DR plays the finals of the Pan Am Cup but loses to USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114522\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114522\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dominican-Team-Norceca-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NORCECA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The defending champions, team USA had to work very hard to defeat the host country senior women\u2019s team in the finals of the Women\u2019s Volleyball Pan American Cup. The Saturday, 14 July 2018 game ended 2-1 (24-26, 21-25, 25-21, 25-19, 15-8). After two close set losses, the US women\u2019s volleyball team mounted what was described by the Norceca website as \u201ca monumental comeback\u201d in the third set to claim the gold.<br \/>\nOn the previous Friday, 13 July 2018, the Dominican Republic women\u2019s volleyball team had bested Brazil 3-0 (25-16, 25-12, 25-23) to win the right to play the finals against the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.norceca.net\/Dominicans%20overpower%20Brazil%20to%20reach%20the%20gold%20medal%20match.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norceca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/News\/2018\/July\/15\/Team-USA-Rallies-From-2-0-Deficit-To-Beat-Dominican-Republic-For-Womens-Volleyball-Pan-Am-Cup-Gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defending champions, team USA had to work very hard to defeat the host country senior women\u2019s team in the finals of the Women\u2019s Volleyball Pan American Cup. The Saturday, 14 July 2018 game ended 2-1 (24-26, 21-25, 25-21, 25-19, 15-8). After two close set losses, the US women\u2019s volleyball team mounted what was described &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/16\/dr-plays-the-finals-of-the-pan-am-cup-but-loses-to-usa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}