{"id":573883162,"date":"2012-04-21T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883162"},"modified":"2012-04-23T02:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:18:47","slug":"the-three-heisman-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/the-three-heisman-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"The three Heisman statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got to see these today. They&#8217;re quite impressive. And at a reported <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theplainsman.com\/view\/full_story\/14765728\/article-Heisman-trophy-winner-statues-in-the-works?instance=home_news_lead_story\">$100,000<\/a>, they better be. <\/p>\n<p>(A statue of a living person is unfortunate, but we&#8217;ve already crossed that bridge.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr12\/apr48.jpg\" alt=\"PatSullivan\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr12\/apr49.jpg\" alt=\"BoJackson\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr12\/apr50.jpg\" alt=\"CamNewton\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The unveiling, last weekend, with Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson and Cam Newton all in attendance: <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VXCoIjxqtvs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VXCoIjxqtvs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wish they&#8217;d used an Auburn sculptor &#8212; remember <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=hxh7M1iUgekC&#038;lpg=PT345&#038;dq=%22if%20they%20don't%20think%20an%20Auburn%20man%20can%20do%20the%20job%22&#038;pg=PT345#v=onepage&#038;q=%22if%20they%20don't%20think%20an%20Auburn%20man%20can%20do%20the%20job%22&#038;f=false\">what Shug said<\/a> &#8212; but the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewareaglereader.com\/2011\/04\/auburn-heisman-statues\/\">Ken Bjorge<\/a> from <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewareaglereader.com\/2011\/04\/sculptor-says-statues-show-auburns-heisman-winners-in-action-jackson-and-sullivan-already-delivered\/\">Montana<\/a> did fine work. (Here he is <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewareaglereader.com\/2011\/05\/bust-of-john-heisman-delivered-to-auburn-photo-released\/\">working on the Heisman bust<\/a> which is a bit of disembodied creepiness.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the best part is the strategic positioning, with the official Heisman portrait of each man looking over the statue. Nice touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got to see these today. They&#8217;re quite impressive. And at a reported $100,000, they better be. (A statue of a living person is unfortunate, but we&#8217;ve already crossed that bridge.) The unveiling, last weekend, with Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson and Cam Newton all in attendance: Wish they&#8217;d used an Auburn sculptor &#8212; remember what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,32,28,25,10,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-football","category-history","category-iphone","category-links","category-photo","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883162","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=573883162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883172,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883162\/revisions\/573883172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}