{"id":174416,"date":"2026-04-24T01:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:04:14","slug":"nfl-draft-and-its-many-fans-bring-a-city-hope-and-prompt-schools-to-go-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174416\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL draft and its many fans bring a city hope \u2014 and prompt schools to go virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6WFEMZYRTNC2DECP4CX3DTTITI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The school day was starting, but Arnetta Fuqua decided to let her 7-year-old daughter sleep a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RCFAOY44CZDGBEMPQVQEZN7HDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It was a sunny-enough Wednesday in April, but Ralilah, a first-grader in Pittsburgh public school, would be studying from home through the end of the week, after school leaders decided to shutter classrooms \u2014 not for snow or heat or a global pandemic, but for the arrival of a new kind of marquee sports event: the NFL draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The school day was starting, but Arnetta Fuqua decided to let her 7-year-old daughter sleep a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58181,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-174416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-partner-exclude","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}