{"id":853,"date":"2017-10-24T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=853"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:35:37","slug":"football-mid-season-2017-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/10\/24\/football-mid-season-2017-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Mid-Season 2017 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Sehyr Khan (VI)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The boys\u2019 varsity football season is already off to a solid start with a current seasonal record of 2-3. The team has been working hard since the start of August preseason under the guidance of Head Coach Chris Shilts and Assistant Coach Jon Leef. This year, the team is looking forward to playing in a new league with new competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team looks to be incredibly strong with a significantly large senior class.\u00a0According to captains Obi Nnaeto (VI) and Clyde Leef (VI), the team\u2019s strength lies within its versatility. \u201cWe have a lot of people that can play a lot of positions,\u201d Leef said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team played an incredibly close game at Homecoming on October 7th against Fieldston but ultimately lost to the team 48-49.\u00a0Despite their defeat, Big Blue Football is \u201cdetermined as a team\u201d and excited to redeem themselves in their upcoming games.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sehyr Khan (VI) The boys\u2019 varsity football season is already off to a solid start with a current seasonal record of 2-3. The team has been working hard since the start of August preseason under the guidance of Head Coach Chris Shilts and Assistant Coach Jon Leef. This year, the team is looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,57],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}