{"id":12802,"date":"2019-02-13T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=12802"},"modified":"2019-02-13T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:23:48","slug":"transitional-champion-podcast-nxt-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/13\/transitional-champion-podcast-nxt-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitional Champion Podcast &#8211; NXT Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9NqUWosS_I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/gzrmz-a7c077?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=8&amp;btn-skin=101&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At Nathan&#8217;s request, DiRT watched the NXT Takeover Phoenix special. 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