{"id":573882073,"date":"2011-09-03T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882073"},"modified":"2011-09-04T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T23:31:24","slug":"after-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/after-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"After the game &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We bumped into Trooper Taylor, who is Auburn&#8217;s wide receiver coach, assistant-head coach and a top-notch recruiter. When you talk to him for more than two minutes and get a sense of his enthusiasm it isn&#8217;t hard to see why. We&#8217;re going to celebrate Thanksgiving with him this year, the joke goes. He just doesn&#8217;t know it yet.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s seen The Yankee cycling around town, and remembers where. He works with young men for a living, he&#8217;s clearly having a ball and it is hard not to see, and reflect, his enthusiasm when you&#8217;re around him.<\/p>\n<p>And if you take a picture with him, he <em>insists<\/em> you wear his championship ring. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept11\/sept54.jpg\" alt=\"Ring\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hold it up like bling,&#8221; Taylor said. He knows my personality so well. <\/p>\n<p>I looked at him, he is a former college wide receiver himself, and wondered <em>Can you outrun me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trooper Taylor gives off the impression of a man living the dream, who likes to share it with everyone around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bumped into Trooper Taylor, who is Auburn&#8217;s wide receiver coach, assistant-head coach and a top-notch recruiter. When you talk to him for more than two minutes and get a sense of his enthusiasm it isn&#8217;t hard to see why. We&#8217;re going to celebrate Thanksgiving with him this year, the joke goes. He just doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-football","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573882073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882076,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882073\/revisions\/573882076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}